On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:19:32AM -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Mon 10 Jan 09:12 PST 2022, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>
> > struct rpmsg_eptdev contains a struct cdev. The current code frees
> > the rpmsg_eptdev struct in rpmsg_eptdev_destroy(), but the cdev is
> > a managed object, therefore its release is not predictable and the
> > rpmsg_eptdev could be freed before the cdev is entirely released.
> >
> > The cdev_device_add/del() API was created to address this issue
> > (see commit 233ed09d7fda), use it instead of cdev add/del().
> >
> > Fixes: c0cdc19f84a4 ("rpmsg: Driver for user space endpoint interface")
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v5:
> > - patch added to the series
> >
> > drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c | 10 ++--------
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
> > index ba85f5d11960..5bc1e6017587 100644
> > --- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
> > +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
>
> There's a cdev_del() in rpmsg_eptdev_release_device() that I think needs
> to go as well, in line with patch 1.
Good catch, thanks, will fix.
