The omap_device struct contains a 'struct platform_device'.  Normally,
converting a platform_device pointer to an omap_device pointer
consists of simply doing a container_of(), as is done currently by the
to_omap_device() macro.

However, if this is attempted when using platform_device that has not
been created as part of the omap_device creation, the container_of()
will point to a memory location before the platform_device pointer
which will contain random data.

Therefore, we need a way to detect valid omap_device pointers.  This
patch solves this by using the simple magic number approach.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khil...@deeprootsystems.com>
---
 arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/omap_device.h |    2 ++
 arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c              |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/omap_device.h 
b/arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/omap_device.h
index 76d4917..4677ff7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/omap_device.h
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/omap_device.h
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
  *
  */
 struct omap_device {
+       u32                             magic;
        struct platform_device          pdev;
        struct omap_hwmod               **hwmods;
        struct omap_device_pm_latency   *pm_lats;
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ int omap_device_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev);
 
 /* Core code interface */
 
+bool omap_device_is_valid(struct omap_device *od);
 int omap_device_count_resources(struct omap_device *od);
 int omap_device_fill_resources(struct omap_device *od, struct resource *res);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c
index d8c75c8..3d1baa1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@
 # error Unknown OMAP device
 #endif
 
+#define OMAP_DEVICE_MAGIC 0xf00dcafe
+
 /* Private functions */
 
 /**
@@ -417,6 +419,8 @@ struct omap_device *omap_device_build_ss(const char 
*pdev_name, int pdev_id,
        if (ret)
                goto odbs_exit4;
 
+       od->magic = OMAP_DEVICE_MAGIC;
+
        return od;
 
 odbs_exit4:
@@ -599,6 +603,18 @@ int omap_device_align_pm_lat(struct platform_device *pdev,
 }
 
 /**
+ * omap_device_is_valid()
+ * @od: struct omap_device *
+ *
+ * Return whether struct omap_device pointer @od points to a valid
+ * omap_device.
+ */
+bool omap_device_is_valid(struct omap_device *od)
+{
+       return (od && od->magic == OMAP_DEVICE_MAGIC);
+}
+
+/**
  * omap_device_get_pwrdm - return the powerdomain * associated with @od
  * @od: struct omap_device *
  *
-- 
1.6.6

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