Re: [PATCH 22/99] fbdev/fsl-diu-fb: Duplicate video-mode option string

[Timur Tabi]

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 10:01 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Assume that the driver does not own the option string or its substrings
> and hence duplicate the option string for the video mode. The driver only
> parses the option string once as part of module initialization, so use
> a static buffer to store the duplicated mode option. Linux automatically
> frees the memory upon releasing the module.

So after module_init is finished, mode_option_buf[] no longer exists?

> +                       static char mode_option_buf[256];
> +                       int ret;
> +
> +                       ret = snprintf(mode_option_buf, sizeof(mode_option_buf), "%s", opt);
> +                       if (WARN(ret < 0, "fsl-diu-fb: ignoring invalid option, ret=%d\n", ret))
> +                               continue;
> +                       if (WARN(ret >= sizeof(mode_option_buf), "fsl-diu-fb: option too long\n"))
> +                               continue;
> +                       fb_mode = mode_option_buf;

If so, then I'm not sure that's going to work.  fb_mode is used after
module_init, in install_fb(), which is called by fsl_diu_probe().