On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 10:45:19AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> This fixes device lifetime issues where it was possible to free a live
> struct device.
>
> Fixes: a55ebd47f21f ("counter: add IRQ or GPIO based counter")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c b/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c
> index 4bf706ef46e2..9e99702470c2 100644
> --- a/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c
> +++ b/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c
> @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
>
> struct interrupt_cnt_priv {
> atomic_t count;
> - struct counter_device counter;
> struct gpio_desc *gpio;
> int irq;
> bool enabled;
> @@ -148,12 +147,14 @@ static const struct counter_ops interrupt_cnt_ops = {
> static int interrupt_cnt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> + struct counter_device *counter;
> struct interrupt_cnt_priv *priv;
> int ret;
>
> - priv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!priv)
> + counter = devm_counter_alloc(dev, sizeof(*priv));
I just picked one of these patches at random, nothing specific about
this driver...
You can not have a 'struct device' in memory allocated by devm_*()
functions for the obvious reason that now that memory is being
controlled by a reference count that is OUTSIDE of the structure itself.
So while your goal might be good here, this is not the correct solution
at all, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
