linux-kernel - Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm_crb: fix bad name pointer usage with struct resource

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Message-ID: <20160218173140.GA5899@obsidianresearch.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:31:40 -0700
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>, tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm_crb: fix bad name pointer usage with
 struct resource

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Maybe for the release the safest bet would be anyway explicitly not
> use the name field? That's the safest bet given the release time
> frame.

nulling it in the acpi paths of tis and crb, if you know those are broken
seems good for a rc.

I haven't looked at what other options there are, I suspect it needs
strdup due to how the drivers are working with acpi..

Jason