linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] console: console: Complete exception handling in newport

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:05:18 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:     Dejin Zheng <zhengdejin5@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, FlorianSchandinat@....de,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] console: console: Complete exception handling in newport_probe()

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:55 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@...sung.com> wrote:

> > +     if (err)
> > +             iounmap((void *)npregs);
>
> Looks OK but while you are at it, could you please also add missing
> release_mem_region() on error and on device removal:
>
>         newport_addr = dev->resource.start + 0xF0000;
>         if (!request_mem_region(newport_addr, 0x10000, "Newport"))
>                 return -ENODEV;
>
>         npregs = (struct newport_regs *)/* ioremap cannot fail */
>                 ioremap(newport_addr, sizeof(struct newport_regs));
>         console_lock();
>         err = do_take_over_console(&newport_con, 0, MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1, 1);
>         console_unlock();
>         return err;
> }
>
> static void newport_remove(struct gio_device *dev)
> {
>         give_up_console(&newport_con);
>         iounmap((void *)npregs);
> }
>
> ?

Don't you think that proper solution is rather switch to memremap()?

> >       return err;
> >  }

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko