linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] clk: mediatek: Initialize clk_init

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Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 21:57:11 +0800
From:	Ricky Liang <jcliang@...omium.org>
To:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	James Liao <jamesjj.liao@...iatek.com>,
	Henry Chen <henryc.chen@...iatek.com>,
	"open list:COMMON CLK FRAMEWORK" <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC..." 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC..." 
	<linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clk: mediatek: Initialize clk_init_data

Hi Sascha,

Sure. I can fix clk-gate.c as well. New patch on the way...

-Ricky

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> Hi Ricky,
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:41:49AM +0800, Ricky Liang wrote:
>> The variable init (struct clk_init_data) is allocated on the stack.
>> We weren't initializing the .flags field, so it contains random junk,
>> which can cause all kinds of interesting issues when the flags are
>> parsed by clk_register.
>
> It seems we have the same problem in clk-gate.c aswell. We do initialize
> do .flags field there, so this is no urgent problem, but we might get a
> real problem when additional fields are added to struct clk_init_data.
> Care to fix that aswell along with this patch?
>
> Sascha
>
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