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From: arvindY <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: nsekhar@ti.com, khilman@kernel.org, kaloz@openwrt.org,
	khalasa@piap.pl, aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, tony@atomide.com,
	jason@lakedaemon.net, andrew@lunn.ch,
	sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com,
	gregory.clement@free-electrons.com, daniel@zonque.org,
	haojian.zhuang@gmail.com, robert.jarzmik@free.fr,
	marek.vasut@gmail.com, slapin@ossfans.org, jic23@cam.ac.uk,
	kgene@kernel.org, krzk@kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
	ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, dalias@libc.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] constify gpio_led
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 18:37:48 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A40F824.5070100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171223101321.GQ10595@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>

Hi Ressell,

On Saturday 23 December 2017 03:43 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 02:17:41PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
>> gpio_led are not supposed to change at runtime.
>> struct gpio_led_platform_data working with const gpio_led
>> provided by <linux/leds.h>. So mark the non-const structs
>> as const.
> Marking the structs as const is fine, but marking them __initconst is
> not.  The GPIO LED driver can be built as a module, which means it can
> be loaded after the init sections have gone away.  If that happens,
> then we de-reference the pointer to memory that has been freed.
>
> Please re-spin your patch set without the __initconst marking.
>
Thanks for reviewing, As per your comment, I will send updated
patch. Which will not include __initconst.

~arvind

      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-25 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-20  8:47 [PATCH 00/11] constify gpio_led Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 01/11] MIPS: Alchemy: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: AR7: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 03/11] MIPS: TXX9: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86: geode: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-23  7:50   ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 05/11] sh: mach-rsk: rsk7203: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 06/11] ARM: davinci: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-23 10:01   ` Sekhar Nori
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 07/11] ARM: ixp4xx: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 08/11] ARM: OMAP1: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 09/11] ARM: orion5x: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 10/11] ARM: s3c24xx: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-20  8:47 ` [PATCH 11/11] ARM: pxa: " Arvind Yadav
2017-12-24 17:54   ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-25 13:04     ` arvindY
2017-12-23 10:13 ` [PATCH 00/11] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-25 13:07   ` arvindY [this message]

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