[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "spi: dw: Don't use devm_kzalloc in master->setup callback" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Oct 9 20:51:29 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    spi: dw: Don't use devm_kzalloc in master->setup callback

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d54605c639d62b923ceeffe9ab2f5f3cb1d081b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Lin <axel.lin at ingics.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:47:06 +0800
Subject: spi: dw: Don't use devm_kzalloc in master->setup callback

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 at opensource.altera.com>
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin at ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: was not using devm_kzalloc; only needed
  the set-NULL in dw_spi_cleanup. ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/spi/spi-dw.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
index b897c4ad..07fa943 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
@@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ static void dw_spi_cleanup(struct spi_device *spi)
 {
 	struct chip_data *chip = spi_get_ctldata(spi);
 	kfree(chip);
+	spi_set_ctldata(spi, NULL);
 }

 static int init_queue(struct dw_spi *dws)
--
1.9.1





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