Re: [PATCH] pwm: lp3943: Use of_property_count_u32_elems() to get property length

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 2:58 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Rob,
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 02:14:03PM -0600, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> > Replace of_get_property() with the type specific
> > of_property_count_u32_elems() to get the property length.
> >
> > This is part of a larger effort to remove callers of of_get_property()
> > and similar functions. of_get_property() leaks the DT property data
> > pointer which is a problem for dynamically allocated nodes which may
> > be freed.
>
> To understand that right: The problem is that of_get_property() returns
> pp->value, which might be freed. In this driver this isn't problematic
> as the returned value is just used for a NULL check. So this isn't
> urgent and queuing it for the next merge window is fine, right?

Yes, 6.12 is fine.

Rob