linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] pci: spear: Drop __initdata from spear13xx_pcie

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Message-ID: <CAJs94Ea5W7A2ZYR55GPe2vPm2HiUScx+zYm8VwXMvLssrwdJCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:39:13 +0300
From:	"Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@....msu.ru>
To:	Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@...sol.com>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Mohit Kumar <mohit.kumar@...com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pci: spear: Drop __initdata from spear13xx_pcie_driver

2015-03-06 17:42 GMT+03:00 Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@...sol.com>:
> On 02/19/2015 07:41 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>> spear13xx_pcie_driver.driver is allocated in text.init section
>> and then the pointer to it is passed futher. This patch is to avoid
>> crashes like the following, when freed memory is used.
>>
>
> What happened with this patch, could it go as a fix?
>

With this patch the kernel works as expected (without crashes), I
think it could be considered as a fix.



-- 
With best regards,
Matwey V. Kornilov.
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
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