From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>, Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] backlight: pwm: clean up pwm requested using legacy API
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:47:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141107134735.GA31950@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413035186-11771-3-git-send-email-vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 04:46:26PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> If PWM device is requested by means of legacy API pwm_request(), its
> resources are not freed on module unbind, which may cause an oops on
> access, e.g. by reading /sys/kernel/debug/pwm.
>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dmitry_eremin@mentor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
> ---
> drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
Hopefully this can soon go away when all users of the legacy API have
been converted. Until then:
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-11 13:46 [PATCH 0/2] backlight: pwm: fix oops on accessing removed legacy pwm device Vladimir Zapolskiy
2014-10-11 13:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] backlight: pwm: don't call legacy pwm request for device defined in dt Vladimir Zapolskiy
2014-10-11 14:21 ` Greg KH
2014-11-07 13:48 ` Thierry Reding
2014-11-07 14:19 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2014-11-07 14:57 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2014-12-01 14:47 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2015-01-21 13:18 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2015-06-12 11:31 ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-12 12:57 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2015-06-12 13:19 ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-11 13:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] backlight: pwm: clean up pwm requested using legacy API Vladimir Zapolskiy
2014-10-11 14:21 ` Greg KH
2014-11-06 22:10 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2014-11-06 22:54 ` Greg KH
2014-11-07 11:50 ` Lee Jones
2014-11-07 13:47 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2014-11-10 10:01 ` Lee Jones
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