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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
To: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Khouloud Touil <ktouil@baylibre.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-gpio <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] gpiolib: use kref in gpio_desc
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:51:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMpxmJX5673AmGDwrb=DMUu7=8Xi2VTtWE72F2hgitK9QUt-RA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5970b17a-b29b-154f-033e-6da007d6a289@linaro.org>

czw., 20 lut 2020 o 13:05 Srinivas Kandagatla
<srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> napisał(a):
>
>
>
> On 20/02/2020 10:01, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > @@ -2798,6 +2798,8 @@ static int gpiod_request_commit(struct gpio_desc *desc, const char *label)
> >               goto done;
> >       }
> >
> > +     kref_init(&desc->ref);
> > +
>
> Should we not decrement refcount on the error path of this function?
>

On error the descriptor will still be unrequested so there's no point
in potentially calling gpiod_free(). Also: the next time someone
requests it and succeeds, we'll set it back to 1.

Bartosz

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-20 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-20 10:01 [PATCH v4 0/4] nvmem/gpio: fix resource management Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-20 10:01 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] nvmem: fix memory leak in error path Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-20 11:30   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2020-02-20 12:45     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-20 10:01 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] gpiolib: use kref in gpio_desc Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-20 12:05   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2020-02-20 12:51     ` Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
2020-02-20 10:01 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] nvmem: increase the reference count of a gpio passed over config Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-22 11:54   ` kbuild test robot
2020-02-23 20:22     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-20 10:01 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] nvmem: release the write-protect pin Bartosz Golaszewski

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