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

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Message-ID: <20160219150606.GB7474@intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:06:06 +0200
From:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.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 Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:31:40AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 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..

Can you quickly check the two top-most patches:

https://github.com/jsakkine/linux-tpmdd/commits/master

This is for 4.5 release.

> Jason

/Jarkko