Even though it has "bool" in the name, you have pass a u32 pointer to
debugfs_create_bool(). Otherwise you get memory corruption in
write_file_bool(). Fortunately in this case the corruption happens in
an alignment hole between variables so it doesn't cause any problems.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/lib/dma-debug.c b/lib/dma-debug.c
index 13ef233..08cd5a6 100644
--- a/lib/dma-debug.c
+++ b/lib/dma-debug.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(free_entries);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(free_entries_lock);
/* Global disable flag - will be set in case of an error */
-static bool global_disable __read_mostly;
+static u32 global_disable __read_mostly;
/* Global error count */
static u32 error_count;
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int dma_debug_fs_init(void)
global_disable_dent = debugfs_create_bool("disabled", 0444,
dma_debug_dent,
- (u32 *)&global_disable);
+ &global_disable);
if (!global_disable_dent)
goto out_err;
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