linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] soc: qcom: pmic_glink_altmode: fix drm bridge use-after-free

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:25:44 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>, freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] soc: qcom: pmic_glink_altmode: fix drm bridge
 use-after-free

…
> Specifically, the dp-hpd bridge is currently registered before all
> resources have been acquired which means that it can also be
> deregistered on probe deferrals.
>
> In the meantime there is a race window where the new aux bridge driver
> (or PHY driver previously) may have looked up the dp-hpd bridge and
> stored a (non-reference-counted) pointer to the bridge which is about to
> be deallocated.
…

I got the impression that the change description can be improved another bit.

1. Will any additional imperative wordings become helpful?
   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.8-rc5#n94


…
> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/pmic_glink_altmode.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct pmic_glink_altmode_port {
>
>  	struct work_struct work;
>
> -	struct device *bridge;
> +	struct auxiliary_device *bridge;
>
>  	enum typec_orientation orientation;
>  	u16 svid;
…

2. How do you think about to stress such a data type adjustment?

Regards,
Markus