linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: max8660: fix assignment of pdata to data that becomes dead

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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:03:06 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: max8660: fix assignment of pdata to data that
 becomes dead

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:06:46PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> pdata is assigned to &pdata_of, however, pdata_of becomes dead (when it
> goes out of scope) so pdata effectively becomes a dead pointer to the
> out of scope object.  This is detected by static analysis:

Applied, thanks

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