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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: irq: Set data pointer only on regmap_add_irq_chip success
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:24:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140313192417.GK366@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394721184.20773.15.camel@AMDC1943>

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:33:04PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> Yes, you're right but still I think that 'data' should be set in a
> atomic way - only if regmap_add_irq_chip() succeeds. Usually a caller
> passing a pointer for allocation expects that one of:
> 1. Allocation succeeds and it is put under passed pointer;
> 2. Allocation fails and no one touches my pointer.

Yeah, I probably will apply it but on the other hand nothing should be
relying on this - the caller is just plain buggy, it's not really even
supposed to be aware of the existence of data in the first place and is
doing the equivalent of a double free.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-13 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-13  8:06 [PATCH] regmap: irq: Set data pointer only on regmap_add_irq_chip success Krzysztof Kozlowski
2014-03-13 14:13 ` Mark Brown
2014-03-13 14:33   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2014-03-13 19:24     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-03-13 21:47 ` Mark Brown

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