On 11/02/11 12:45, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:35:59AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
>> If the array of clk_lookups contains aliases for the same struct
>> clk, msm_clock_init() will add the clock to the clocks list
>> twice. This would cause list corruption so let's just remove the
>> clocks list and any associated code and iterate over the array
>> instead.
> Hmm...
>
>> @@ -158,13 +152,13 @@ void __init msm_clock_init(struct clk_lookup
>> *clock_tbl, unsigned num_clocks)
>> */
>> static int __init clock_late_init(void)
>> {
>> + unsigned i, count = 0;
>> unsigned long flags;
>> - struct clk *clk;
>> - unsigned count = 0;
>>
>> clock_debug_init();
>> - mutex_lock(&clocks_mutex);
>> - list_for_each_entry(clk, &clocks, list) {
>> + for (i = 0; i < msm_num_clocks; i++) {
>> + struct clk *clk = msm_clocks[i].clk;
>> +
>> clock_debug_add(clk);
> This means you'll end up calling clock_debug_add() twice for the same
> struct clk - this sounds like a bad idea in itself. It looks like
> there's no protection within that function against it being called
> twice with the same struct clk.
>
> Are you sure this is safe?
This hasn't proven to be a problem so far because debugfs returns an
error when you create a directory with the same name twice. If we ever
do something more in clock_debug_add() we would have a problem.
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