Re: [PATCH] mmc: core: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Fri Mar 24 2023 - 11:47:04 EST


On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 14:28, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 17.03.2023 07:47, Yu Zhe wrote:
> > Pointer variables of void * type do not require type cast.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yu Zhe <yuzhe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/mmc/core/debugfs.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/mmc/core/host.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c | 6 +++---
> > 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> ...
> > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
> > index 096093f7be00..76900f67c782 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
> > @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mmc_alloc_host);
> >
> > static void devm_mmc_host_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
> > {
> > - mmc_free_host(*(struct mmc_host **)res);
> > + mmc_free_host(res);
>
> The above chunk is wrong and causes following regression on today's
> Linux next-20230324:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000001020
> Mem abort info:
> meson-gx-mmc ffe07000.mmc: allocated mmc-pwrseq
> ...
> [0000000000001020] user address but active_mm is swapper
> Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 3 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u12:0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc3-next-20230324+
> #13452
> Hardware name: Khadas VIM3 (DT)
> Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
> pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> pc : mmc_pwrseq_free+0x1c/0x38
> lr : devm_mmc_host_release+0x1c/0x34
> ...
> Call trace:
> mmc_pwrseq_free+0x1c/0x38
> devm_mmc_host_release+0x1c/0x34
> release_nodes+0x5c/0x90
> devres_release_all+0x8c/0xdc
> device_unbind_cleanup+0x18/0x68
> really_probe+0x11c/0x2b4
> __driver_probe_device+0x78/0xe0
> driver_probe_device+0xd8/0x160
> __device_attach_driver+0xb8/0x138
> bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xe0
> __device_attach_async_helper+0xb0/0xd4
> async_run_entry_fn+0x34/0xe0
> process_one_work+0x288/0x5c0
> worker_thread+0x74/0x450
> kthread+0x124/0x128
> ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> Code: f9000bf3 aa0003f3 f9424c00 b4000080 (f9401000)
> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>
> Ulf: do You want me to send a partial revert or will you handle it by
> dropping this patch?

Thanks for the report, I will simply drop the patch!

Kind regards
Uffe