Re: [PATCHv3 3/4] drm/tilcdc: Use unload to handle initialization failures

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2016-11-21 11:24 GMT+01:00 Jyri Sarha <jsarha@xxxxxx>:
> On 11/18/16 18:57, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> 2016-11-02 16:57 GMT+01:00 Jyri Sarha <jsarha@xxxxxx>:
>>> Use unload to handle initialization failures instead of complex goto
>>> label mess. To do this the initialization sequence needed slight
>>> reordering and some unload functions needed to become conditional.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jyri Sarha <jsarha@xxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>
>> I'm not sure yet of the exact error path, but with this patch
>> tilcdc_crtc_destroy() fails with a NULL-pointer dereference at
>> dmam_free_coherent() due to crtc->dev being NULL if there are no
>> panels registered.
>>
>
> Argh, should have read the dmam_alloc_coherent() function documentation.
> I just wondered what the extra m in function prefix was for and did not
> realize that it was a devres version of the function (I would have
> expected such a function to be called devm_dma_alloc_coherent()).
>

I don't get it either - the original commit introducing devres
(9ac7849e35f7: "devres: device resource management") already had
different prefixes for different managed interfaces.

Maybe we should propose renaming them unless there's a good reason to
keep the dmam prefix?

Thanks,
Bartosz
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