Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] spi: cadence-qspi: fix pointer reference in runtime PM hooks

[Dhruva Gole]

Hi Mark,

On Feb 05, 2024 at 15:12:10 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 03:57:30PM +0100, Théo Lebrun wrote:
> > dev_get_drvdata() gets used to acquire the pointer to cqspi and the SPI
> > controller. Neither embed the other; this lead to memory corruption.
> > 
> > On a given platform (Mobileye EyeQ5) the memory corruption is hidden
> > inside cqspi->f_pdata. Also, this uninitialised memory is used as a
> > mutex (ctlr->bus_lock_mutex) by spi_controller_suspend().
> 
> Please place fixes at the start of serieses so that they don't end up
> with spurious dependencies on other changes and can more easily be
> applied as fixes.

Didn't really understand the comment here, aren't the 1,2 and 3 patches
fixes and the last one the non-fix? Thus fixes are indeed placed at
start of this series right?

Can you help understand with some example series?

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Best regards,
Dhruva Gole <d-gole@xxxxxx>