linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:53:01 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ruslan Ruslichenko <rruslich@...co.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, alan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:11:50AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The goldfish platform code registers the platform device unconditionally
> which causes havoc in several ways if the goldfish_pdev_bus driver is
> enabled:
> 
>  - Access to the hardcoded physical memory region, which is either not
>    available or contains stuff which is completely unrelated.
> 
>  - Prevents that the interrupt of the serial port can be requested
> 
>  - In case of a spurious interrupt it goes into a infinite loop in the
>    interrupt handler of the pdev_bus driver (which needs to be fixed
>    seperately).
> 
> Add a 'goldfish' command line option to make the registration opt-in when
> the platform is compiled in.
> 
> I'm seriously grumpy about this engineering trainwreck, which has seven
> SOBs from Intel developers for 50 lines of code. And none of them figured
> out that this is broken. Impressive fail!
> 
> Fixes: ddd70cf93d78 ("goldfish: platform device for x86")
> Reported-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Just thinking, could we not simply delete this entire driver and use
x86-DT support to setup this platform?