Hello Walter, On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:49:10PM +0200, walter harms wrote: > Am 16.05.2014 13:16, schrieb Emil Goode: > > Hello Walter, > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:40:19PM +0200, walter harms wrote: > >> > >> > >> Am 16.05.2014 11:54, schrieb Emil Goode: > >>> If we fail to allocate struct platform_device pdev we > >>> dereference it after the goto label err. > >>> > >>> I have rearranged the error handling a bit to fix the issue > >>> and also make it more clear. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx> > >>> --- > >>> v2: Changed to return -ENOMEM instead of ret where possible and > >>> updated the subject line. > >>> > >>> arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > >>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > >>> > >>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > >>> index fc4dd7c..68f2a4a 100644 > >>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > >>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > >>> @@ -77,34 +77,38 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera( > >>> > >>> pdev = platform_device_alloc("mx3-camera", 0); > >>> if (!pdev) > >>> - goto err; > >>> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > >>> > >>> pdev->dev.dma_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL); > >>> if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask) > >>> - goto err; > >>> + goto put_pdev; > >>> > >>> *pdev->dev.dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32); > >>> pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32); > >>> > >>> ret = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, res, ARRAY_SIZE(res)); > >>> if (ret) > >>> - goto err; > >>> + goto free_dma_mask; > >>> > >>> if (pdata) { > >>> struct mx3_camera_pdata *copied_pdata; > >>> > >>> ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, pdata, sizeof(*pdata)); > >>> - if (ret) { > >>> -err: > >>> - kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask); > >>> - platform_device_put(pdev); > >>> - return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); > >>> - } > >>> + if (ret) > >>> + goto free_dma_mask; > >>> + > >>> copied_pdata = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev); > >>> copied_pdata->dma_dev = &imx_ipu_coredev->dev; > >> > >> > >> the patch is fine, but what use is this copied_pdata ? > >> It scope ends next line ? > >> > >> re, > >> wh > > > > I also thought that looked a bit odd, but copied_pdata is a temporary > > pointer to platform_data of the dev struct. > > > > dev_get_platdata looks like this: > > > > static inline void *dev_get_platdata(const struct device *dev) > > { > > return dev->platform_data; > > } > > > > So I believe it's a more compact way of writing: > > > > pdev->dev->platform_data->dma_dev = &imx_ipu_coredev->dev; It's not about compactness. The dev_get_platdata accessor exists to be used instead of directly accessing dev->platform_data. I admit a comment would be nice ... Anyhow this is all ugly, actually you'd want to have the dma_dev member already fixed when calling platform_device_add_data. But you cannot simply do pdata->dma_dev = &imx_ipu_coredev->dev; ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, pdata, sizeof(*pdata)); because *pdata is const. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html