On Aug 11, 2014, at 9:42 PM, Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When we parse the device tree and allocate platform > devices, the 'name' of the newly-created platform_device > is set to point to the 'name' field of the 'struct device' > embedded within the platform_device. This is dangerous, > because the name of the 'struct device' is dynamically > allocated. Drivers may call dev_set_name() on the device, > which will free and reallocate the name of the device, > leaving the 'name' of the platform_device pointing to the > now-freed memory. > > Furthermore, if the dev_set_name() call is made from a > driver's probe() function and a subsequent request results > in probe deferral, the dangling 'name' reference may lead > to the device being re-probed using the wrong driver. > > To mitigate these scenarios, we use kstrdup to perform a > deep copy of the device name when assigning the name of the > platform_device, so that the platform_device name is > unaffected by any calls to dev_set_name() that might made > by drivers to rename the embedded 'struct device'. > > Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > I suppose creating a 'pdev_set_name' API may seem like > another possibility, but I feel that dev.name and pdev.name > have two different meanings. One is used for device/driver > binding purposes, whereas the other serves a more general > identification purpose, and is used for things like sysfs. > Drivers might want to change dev.name while leaving the > pdev.name alone. I guess yet another possibility would be > to prohibit calling dev_set_name() on devices created from > device tree, but a driver does not necessarily know how a > given platform_device was allocated. > > drivers/of/device.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/of/device.c b/drivers/of/device.c > index f685e55..fe5f025 100644 > --- a/drivers/of/device.c > +++ b/drivers/of/device.c > @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int of_device_add(struct platform_device *ofdev) > > /* name and id have to be set so that the platform bus doesn't get > * confused on matching */ > - ofdev->name = dev_name(&ofdev->dev); > + ofdev->name = kstrdup(dev_name(&ofdev->dev), GFP_KERNEL); > ofdev->id = -1; > > /* device_add will assume that this device is on the same node as Don’t we need to free this is of_device_unregister() now? - k > -- > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, > hosted by The Linux Foundation > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
