[PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: Do not use devm functions when registering gpio chip

Guenter Roeck
2016-03-31T15:11:35Z

It is possible that a gpio chip is registered before the gpiolib
initialization code has run. This means we can not use devm_ functions
to allocate memory at that time. Do it the old fashioned way.

Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 72065532c1c7..f1531070814d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -440,6 +440,8 @@ static void gpiodevice_release(struct device *dev)
cdev_del(&gdev->chrdev);
list_del(&gdev->list);
ida_simple_remove(&gpio_ida, gdev->id);
+ kfree(gdev->label);
+ kfree(gdev->descs);
kfree(gdev);
}

@@ -504,8 +506,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data)
else
gdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;

- gdev->descs = devm_kcalloc(&gdev->dev, chip->ngpio,
- sizeof(gdev->descs[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
+ gdev->descs = kcalloc(chip->ngpio, sizeof(gdev->descs[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!gdev->descs) {
status = -ENOMEM;
goto err_free_gdev;
@@ -518,12 +519,12 @@ int gpiochip_add_data(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data)
}

if (chip->label)
- gdev->label = devm_kstrdup(&gdev->dev, chip->label, GFP_KERNEL);
+ gdev->label = kstrdup(chip->label, GFP_KERNEL);
else
- gdev->label = devm_kstrdup(&gdev->dev, "unknown", GFP_KERNEL);
+ gdev->label = kstrdup("unknown", GFP_KERNEL);
if (!gdev->label) {
status = -ENOMEM;
- goto err_free_gdev;
+ goto err_free_descs;
}

gdev->ngpio = chip->ngpio;
@@ -543,7 +544,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data)
if (base < 0) {
status = base;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags);
- goto err_free_gdev;
+ goto err_free_label;
}
/*
* TODO: it should not be necessary to reflect the assigned
@@ -558,7 +559,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data)
status = gpiodev_add_to_list(gdev);
if (status) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags);
- goto err_free_gdev;
+ goto err_free_label;
}

for (i = 0; i < chip->ngpio; i++) {
@@ -637,6 +638,10 @@ err_remove_from_list:
spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
list_del(&gdev->list);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags);
+err_free_label:
+ kfree(gdev->label);
+err_free_descs:
+ kfree(gdev->descs);
err_free_gdev:
ida_simple_remove(&gpio_ida, gdev->id);
/* failures here can mean systems won't boot... */
--
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