linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] counter: cleanups and device lifetime fixes

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Message-ID: <Yc2msulJ2Uc5eJZN@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:31:46 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Kamel Bouhara <kamel.bouhara@...tlin.com>,
        Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
        Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@...s.st.com>,
        Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        Patrick Havelange <patrick.havelange@...ensium.com>,
        Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@...il.com>,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] counter: cleanups and device lifetime fixes

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 09:53:51AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > this is v3 of my series to fix device lifetime issues in the counter
> > framework. This hopefully addresses all things pointed out for v2.
> > 
> > Note this depends on 60f07e74f86b (which is in next) now. Full diffstat
> > below.
> > 
> > Things that could be further improved:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Uwe Kleine-König (23):
> >   counter: Use container_of instead of drvdata to track counter_device
> >   counter: ftm-quaddec: Drop unused platform_set_drvdata()
> >   counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Drop unused platform_set_drvdata()
> >   counter: Provide a wrapper to access device private data
> >   counter: 104-quad-8: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: interrupt-cnt: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: intel-qep: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: ftm-quaddec: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: ti-eqep: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: stm32-lptimer-cnt: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: stm32-timer-cnt: Convert to counter_priv() wrapper
> >   counter: Provide alternative counter registration functions
> >   counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions
> >   counter: 104-quad-8: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: interrupt-cnt: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: intel-qep: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: ftm-quaddec: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: stm32-timer-cnt: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: stm32-lptimer-cnt: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: ti-eqep: Convert to new counter registration
> >   counter: remove old and now unused registration API
> > 
> >  Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst |  10 +-
> >  drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c                 |  93 +++++-----
> >  drivers/counter/counter-core.c               | 186 ++++++++++++++-----
> >  drivers/counter/ftm-quaddec.c                |  36 ++--
> >  drivers/counter/intel-qep.c                  |  46 ++---
> >  drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c              |  38 ++--
> >  drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c      |  44 ++---
> >  drivers/counter/stm32-lptimer-cnt.c          |  51 ++---
> >  drivers/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.c            |  48 ++---
> >  drivers/counter/ti-eqep.c                    |  31 ++--
> >  include/linux/counter.h                      |  15 +-
> >  11 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 242 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Range-diff against v2:
> > [...]
> > 
> > base-commit: a7904a538933c525096ca2ccde1e60d0ee62c08e
> > prerequisite-patch-id: 9459ad8bc78190558df9123f8bebe28ca1c396ea
> 
> All patches have a blessing by at least one of William and Jonathan.
> The prerequisite commit (60f07e74f86b) is in Greg's char-misc-next branch.
> 
> Assuming noone still finds a problem in this series that requires me to
> respin I wonder who will pick it up? Greg?
> 
> Given that it fixes a possible use-after-free in all counter drivers,
> I'd like to see it hit before v5.17-rc1. For 5.16 it's probably too
> late.

Of course it is too later for 5.16, sorry.

I'll queue this up to my tree now, for 5.17-rc1, thanks.

greg k-h