On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 06:05:42PM -0800, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> The release-callback is not used before the device is attached to the
> device hierarchy. This caused resources not to cleanup properly if the
> device driver initialization failed before tpm_chip_register().
This commentary is not right, the release callback is callable
immediately after device_initialize returns, it will be called by the
last put_device().
> - * tpmm_chip_alloc() - allocate a new struct tpm_chip instance
> - * @dev: device to which the chip is associated
> + * tpmm_chip_alloc() - allocate and initialize a TPM chip
> + * @pdev: the platform device who is the parent of the chip
? A platform device is not required, just something in a state that
can handle devm.
> + /* Associate character device with the platform device only after
> + * it is properly initialized.
> + */
> + dev_set_drvdata(pdev, chip);
> + devm_add_action(pdev, (void (*)(void *)) tpm_dev_release,
> &chip->dev);
No, a release function can never be called naked. The action needs
to do put_device, which is the error unwind for device_initialize().
> @@ -162,7 +165,10 @@ static int tpm_add_char_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
> MINOR(chip->dev.devt), rc);
>
> cdev_del(&chip->cdev);
> - return rc;
> + } else {
> + devm_remove_action(chip->dev.parent,
> + (void (*)(void *)) tpm_dev_release,
> + &chip->dev);
This is in the wrong place, the devm should be canceled only if
tpm_chip_register returns success, at that point the caller's contract
is to guarentee a call to tpm_chip_unregister, and
tpm_chip_unregister does the put_device that calls the release
function.
Jason
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