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Commit 389190b2 authored by Krzysztof Kozlowski's avatar Krzysztof Kozlowski Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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driver: platform: Add helper for safer setting of driver_override



commit 6c2f4211 upstream.

Several core drivers and buses expect that driver_override is a
dynamically allocated memory thus later they can kfree() it.

However such assumption is not documented, there were in the past and
there are already users setting it to a string literal. This leads to
kfree() of static memory during device release (e.g. in error paths or
during unbind):

    kernel BUG at ../mm/slub.c:3960!
    Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
    ...
    (kfree) from [<c058da50>] (platform_device_release+0x88/0xb4)
    (platform_device_release) from [<c0585be0>] (device_release+0x2c/0x90)
    (device_release) from [<c0a69050>] (kobject_put+0xec/0x20c)
    (kobject_put) from [<c0f2f120>] (exynos5_clk_probe+0x154/0x18c)
    (exynos5_clk_probe) from [<c058de70>] (platform_drv_probe+0x6c/0xa4)
    (platform_drv_probe) from [<c058b7ac>] (really_probe+0x280/0x414)
    (really_probe) from [<c058baf4>] (driver_probe_device+0x78/0x1c4)
    (driver_probe_device) from [<c0589854>] (bus_for_each_drv+0x74/0xb8)
    (bus_for_each_drv) from [<c058b48c>] (__device_attach+0xd4/0x16c)
    (__device_attach) from [<c058a638>] (bus_probe_device+0x88/0x90)
    (bus_probe_device) from [<c05871fc>] (device_add+0x3dc/0x62c)
    (device_add) from [<c075ff10>] (of_platform_device_create_pdata+0x94/0xbc)
    (of_platform_device_create_pdata) from [<c07600ec>] (of_platform_bus_create+0x1a8/0x4fc)
    (of_platform_bus_create) from [<c0760150>] (of_platform_bus_create+0x20c/0x4fc)
    (of_platform_bus_create) from [<c07605f0>] (of_platform_populate+0x84/0x118)
    (of_platform_populate) from [<c0f3c964>] (of_platform_default_populate_init+0xa0/0xb8)
    (of_platform_default_populate_init) from [<c01031f8>] (do_one_initcall+0x8c/0x404)

Provide a helper which clearly documents the usage of driver_override.
This will allow later to reuse the helper and reduce the amount of
duplicated code.

Convert the platform driver to use a new helper and make the
driver_override field const char (it is not modified by the core).

Reviewed-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419113435.246203-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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