linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] touchscreen: ads7846: please don't touch free'd memory

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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 17:00:20 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Roth <mroth@...sie.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] touchscreen: ads7846: please don't touch free'd memory

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 04:46:53PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> If the _probe() method fails, the 'ts' struct is freed, yet it is
> still used as the drvdata passed to suspend/resume/remove methods.
> Even though the input device does not get registerd, the driver's
> suspend/resume methods still get called as it's a registered SPI
> device.  This patch adds sanity checks to these methods to ensure that
> drvdata is valid before using it.
> 

This is a load of crap. If probe() fails that means that driver does not
manage the device and thus ads7846_suspend() and ads7846_resume() should
not be called _at all_. If SPI core manages to call random methods from
the drivers that failed to bind to a device that should be fixed in SPI
core.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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