This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: dw: Don't use devm_kzalloc in master->setup callback to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: spi-dw-don-t-use-devm_kzalloc-in-master-setup-callback.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a97c883a16da7e0691a3be5465926c92a8da4da6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:47:06 +0800 Subject: spi: dw: Don't use devm_kzalloc in master->setup callback From: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a97c883a16da7e0691a3be5465926c92a8da4da6 upstream. device_add() expects that any memory allocated via devm_* API is only done in the device's probe function. Fix below boot warning: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at drivers/base/dd.c:286 driver_probe_device+0x2b4/0x2f4() Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.16.0-10474-g835c90b-dirty #160 [<c0016364>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c001251c>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24) [<c001251c>] (show_stack) from [<c04eaefc>] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x98) [<c04eaefc>] (dump_stack) from [<c0023d4c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0x9c) [<c0023d4c>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c0023d9c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x34) [<c0023d9c>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c0302c60>] (driver_probe_device+0x2b4/0x2f4) [<c0302c60>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0302d90>] (__device_attach+0x50/0x54) [<c0302d90>] (__device_attach) from [<c0300e60>] (bus_for_each_drv+0x54/0x9c) [<c0300e60>] (bus_for_each_drv) from [<c0302958>] (device_attach+0x84/0x90) [<c0302958>] (device_attach) from [<c0301f10>] (bus_probe_device+0x94/0xb8) [<c0301f10>] (bus_probe_device) from [<c03000c0>] (device_add+0x434/0x4fc) [<c03000c0>] (device_add) from [<c0342dd4>] (spi_add_device+0x98/0x164) [<c0342dd4>] (spi_add_device) from [<c03444a4>] (spi_register_master+0x598/0x768) [<c03444a4>] (spi_register_master) from [<c03446b4>] (devm_spi_register_master+0x40/0x80) [<c03446b4>] (devm_spi_register_master) from [<c0346214>] (dw_spi_add_host+0x1a8/0x258) [<c0346214>] (dw_spi_add_host) from [<c0346920>] (dw_spi_mmio_probe+0x1d4/0x294) [<c0346920>] (dw_spi_mmio_probe) from [<c0304560>] (platform_drv_probe+0x3c/0x6c) [<c0304560>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c0302a98>] (driver_probe_device+0xec/0x2f4) [<c0302a98>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0302d3c>] (__driver_attach+0x9c/0xa0) [<c0302d3c>] (__driver_attach) from [<c0300f0c>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x64/0x98) [<c0300f0c>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c0302518>] (driver_attach+0x2c/0x30) [<c0302518>] (driver_attach) from [<c0302134>] (bus_add_driver+0xdc/0x1f4) [<c0302134>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c03035c8>] (driver_register+0x88/0x104) [<c03035c8>] (driver_register) from [<c030445c>] (__platform_driver_register+0x58/0x6c) [<c030445c>] (__platform_driver_register) from [<c0700f00>] (dw_spi_mmio_driver_init+0x18/0x20) [<c0700f00>] (dw_spi_mmio_driver_init) from [<c0008914>] (do_one_initcall+0x90/0x1d4) [<c0008914>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c06d7d90>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x178/0x248) [<c06d7d90>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c04e687c>] (kernel_init+0x18/0xfc) [<c04e687c>] (kernel_init) from [<c000ecd8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20) Reported-by: Thor Thayer <tthayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-dw.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c @@ -547,8 +547,7 @@ static int dw_spi_setup(struct spi_devic /* Only alloc on first setup */ chip = spi_get_ctldata(spi); if (!chip) { - chip = devm_kzalloc(&spi->dev, sizeof(struct chip_data), - GFP_KERNEL); + chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct chip_data), GFP_KERNEL); if (!chip) return -ENOMEM; spi_set_ctldata(spi, chip); @@ -606,6 +605,14 @@ static int dw_spi_setup(struct spi_devic return 0; } +static void dw_spi_cleanup(struct spi_device *spi) +{ + struct chip_data *chip = spi_get_ctldata(spi); + + kfree(chip); + spi_set_ctldata(spi, NULL); +} + /* Restart the controller, disable all interrupts, clean rx fifo */ static void spi_hw_init(struct dw_spi *dws) { @@ -661,6 +668,7 @@ int dw_spi_add_host(struct device *dev, master->bus_num = dws->bus_num; master->num_chipselect = dws->num_cs; master->setup = dw_spi_setup; + master->cleanup = dw_spi_cleanup; master->transfer_one_message = dw_spi_transfer_one_message; master->max_speed_hz = dws->max_freq; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.16/spi-fsl-don-t-use-devm_kzalloc-in-master-setup-callback.patch queue-3.16/spi-dw-don-t-use-devm_kzalloc-in-master-setup-callback.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html