linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] of/platform: Use platform

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 09:08:59 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
To:	Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jakub Sitnicki <jsitnicki@...il.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] of/platform: Use platform_device interface

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
<ricardo.ribalda@...il.com> wrote:
> of_platform_device_create_pdata() was using of_device_add() to create
> the devices, but of_platform_device_destroy was using
> of_platform_device_destroy().

You mean platform_device_destroy?

> of_device_add(), do not call insert_resource(), which initializes the
> parent field of the resource structure, needed by release_resource(),
> called by of_platform_device_destroy().
>
> This leads to a NULL pointer deference.
>
> This patch, replaces of_device_add() with platform_device_add().

Can you please include a pointer to the previous attempt and explain
how this is different.

>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>

> ---
>  drivers/of/platform.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> index a01f57c..f011f57 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> @@ -183,8 +183,9 @@ static struct platform_device *of_platform_device_create_pdata(
>         dev->dev.bus = &platform_bus_type;
>         dev->dev.platform_data = platform_data;
>         of_dma_configure(&dev->dev, dev->dev.of_node);
> +       dev->name = dev_name(&dev->dev);
>
> -       if (of_device_add(dev) != 0) {
> +       if (platform_device_add(dev) != 0) {
>                 of_dma_deconfigure(&dev->dev);
>                 platform_device_put(dev);
>                 goto err_clear_flag;
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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