On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Stefan Agner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2018-01-10 17:16, Andrey Smirnov wrote: >> Platform device core assumes the ownership of dev.platform_data as >> well as that it is dynamically allocated and it will try to kfree it >> as a part of platform_device_release(). Change the code to pass >> kzalloc'ed chunk of memory instead of a pointer to a static memory to >> avoid causing a BUG() when calling platform_device_put(). > > I tried to get around that by setting platform_data to null before > unregistring the device, see: > https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=151553216030129&w=2 >
Sorry should've commented in that thread: I saw that in your code, but it felt to me like playing with fire a bit. IMHO calling platform_device_put() should just work and not depend on certain field being set to NULL prior. > > This solutions still seems to miss unregistering the platform devices, > which shows when binding the driver again: > Absolutely, this patch solves a problem, not the problem :-) I think solving the problem is orthogonal to this and warrants a separate patch. > root@colibri-imx6:~# echo 20dc000.gpc > > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/imx-gpc/unbind > [ 80.702627] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.0: Dropping the link to > 20dc000.gpc > [ 80.710808] genpd_remove: unable to remove PU > [ 80.716408] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.1: Dropping the link to > 20dc000.gpc > root@colibri-imx6:~# find /sys -name *pgc-power* > /sys/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20dc000.gpc/imx-pgc-power-domain.0 > /sys/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20dc000.gpc/imx-pgc-power-domain.1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/imx-pgc-power-domain.0 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/imx-pgc-power-domain.1 > root@colibri-imx6:~# echo 20dc000.gpc > > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/imx-gpc/bind > [ 89.002754] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 89.007411] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 516 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 > sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x74 > [ 89.015057] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename > '/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20dc000.gpc/imx-pgc-power-domain.0' > > >> >> The problem can be reproduced by artificially enabling the error path >> of platform_device_add() call (around line 452). >> >> Cc: Shawn Guo <[email protected]> >> Cc: Stefan Agner <[email protected]> >> Cc: Lucas Stach <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <[email protected]> >> --- >> >> This patch is a follow up to fix one of the bugs discussed in >> lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] >> >> drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c | 9 ++++++++- >> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c b/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c >> index 47e7aa963dbb..ec8b79abebac 100644 >> --- a/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c >> +++ b/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c >> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ >> #include <linux/pm_domain.h> >> #include <linux/regmap.h> >> #include <linux/regulator/consumer.h> >> +#include <linux/slab.h> >> >> #define GPC_CNTR 0x000 >> >> @@ -428,13 +429,19 @@ static int imx_gpc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) >> if (domain_index >= of_id_data->num_domains) >> continue; >> >> - domain = &imx_gpc_domains[domain_index]; >> + domain = kzalloc(sizeof(*domain), GFP_KERNEL); > > I guess you could use just kalloc here since you memcpy below. > Good point. Will change in v2. Thanks, Andrey Smirnov
