Re: [PATCH V4] mfd: wm8994-core: Don't use managed regulator bulk get API

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> On 25-11-16, 10:14, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > 
> > > The kernel WARNs and then crashes today if wm8994_device_init() fails
> > > after calling devm_regulator_bulk_get().
> > > 
> > > That happens because there are multiple devices involved here and the
> > > order in which managed resources are freed isn't correct.
> > > 
> > > The regulators are added as children of wm8994->dev.  Whereas,
> > > devm_regulator_bulk_get() receives wm8994->dev as the device, though it
> > > gets the same regulators which were added as children of wm8994->dev
> > > earlier.
> > > 
> > > During failures, the children are removed first and the core eventually
> > > calls regulator_unregister() for them. As regulator_put() was never done
> > > for them (opposite of devm_regulator_bulk_get()), the kernel WARNs at
> > > 
> > > 	WARN_ON(rdev->open_count);
> > > 
> > > And eventually it crashes from debugfs_remove_recursive().
> > 
> > Is ...
> > 
> >    mfd: wm8994-core: disable regulators before removing them
> > 
> > ... required as well, or is that separate?
> 
> It would be better if we get that too. Anyway, the $subject patch has a
> dependency on it..

Which is ... ?

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