Re: [PATCH] touchscreen: ads7846: please don't touch free'd memory

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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 04:46:53PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> If the _probe() method fails, the 'ts' struct is freed, yet it is
> still used as the drvdata passed to suspend/resume/remove methods.
> Even though the input device does not get registerd, the driver's
> suspend/resume methods still get called as it's a registered SPI
> device.  This patch adds sanity checks to these methods to ensure that
> drvdata is valid before using it.
> 

This is a load of crap. If probe() fails that means that driver does not
manage the device and thus ads7846_suspend() and ads7846_resume() should
not be called _at all_. If SPI core manages to call random methods from
the drivers that failed to bind to a device that should be fixed in SPI
core.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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