Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: fix use-after-free in sunxi_pmx_free()

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 7:31 AM liu xiang <liu.xiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Liu can you make a patch to Kconfig to just select REGULATOR?
> > Possibly even the specific regulator driver this SoC is using
> > if it is very specific for this purpose.
>
> I found that the regulator driver is related to the specific board, not the SoC.
> There is no board config for ARM64 SoC like ARM.
> Is a good idea to select the regulator driver in the pinctrl Konfig? Or just
> select CONFIG_REGULATOR_FIXED_VOLTAGE to avoid the use-after-free warning?

If that regulator is what the board uses to satisfy this driver then that
is what you should select. Write some blurb in the commit message
about what is going on.

You can even add a comment in Kconfig like that:

# Needed to provide power to rails
select REGULATOR_FIXED_VOLTAGE

Yours,
Linus Walleij