linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] ACPI, APEI, HEST Fix the unsuitable usage of platform

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Message-Id: <1284865235-29920-4-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com>
Date:	Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:00:33 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@...css.fujitsu.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] ACPI, APEI, HEST Fix the unsuitable usage of platform_data

From: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@...css.fujitsu.com>

platform_data in hest_parse_ghes() is used for saving the address of entry
information of erst_tab. When the device is failed to be added, platform_data
will be freed by platform_device_put(). But the value saved in platform_data
should not be freed here. If it is done, it will make system panic.

So I think platform_data should save the address of allocated memory
which saves entry information of erst_tab.

This patch fixed it and I confirmed it on x86_64 next-tree.

v2:
    Transport the pointer of hest_hdr to platform_data using
    platform_device_add_data()

Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@...css.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |    2 +-
 drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c |   11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
index 385a605..0d505e5 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static int __devinit ghes_probe(struct platform_device *ghes_dev)
 	struct ghes *ghes = NULL;
 	int rc = -EINVAL;
 
-	generic = ghes_dev->dev.platform_data;
+	generic = *(struct acpi_hest_generic **)ghes_dev->dev.platform_data;
 	if (!generic->enabled)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
index 343168d..1a3508a 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
@@ -137,20 +137,23 @@ static int hest_parse_ghes_count(struct acpi_hest_header *hest_hdr, void *data)
 
 static int hest_parse_ghes(struct acpi_hest_header *hest_hdr, void *data)
 {
-	struct acpi_hest_generic *generic;
 	struct platform_device *ghes_dev;
 	struct ghes_arr *ghes_arr = data;
 	int rc;
 
 	if (hest_hdr->type != ACPI_HEST_TYPE_GENERIC_ERROR)
 		return 0;
-	generic = (struct acpi_hest_generic *)hest_hdr;
-	if (!generic->enabled)
+
+	if (!((struct acpi_hest_generic *)hest_hdr)->enabled)
 		return 0;
 	ghes_dev = platform_device_alloc("GHES", hest_hdr->source_id);
 	if (!ghes_dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	ghes_dev->dev.platform_data = generic;
+
+	rc = platform_device_add_data(ghes_dev, &hest_hdr, sizeof(void *));
+	if (rc)
+		goto err;
+
 	rc = platform_device_add(ghes_dev);
 	if (rc)
 		goto err;
-- 
1.7.1

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