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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@icloud.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] PM: domains: Fix return value of API dev_pm_get_subsys_data()
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:46:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024111257-collide-finalist-7a0c@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241028-fix_dev_pm_get_subsys_data-v1-1-20385f4b1e17@quicinc.com>

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 08:31:11PM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
> 
> dev_pm_get_subsys_data() has below 2 issues under condition
> (@dev->power.subsys_data != NULL):
> 
> - it will do unnecessary kzalloc() and kfree().

But that's ok, everything still works, right?

> - it will return -ENOMEM if the kzalloc() fails, that is wrong
>   since the kzalloc() is not needed.

But it's ok to return the proper error if the system is that broken.

> 
> Fixed by not doing kzalloc() and returning 0 for the condition.
> 
> Fixes: ef27bed1870d ("PM: Reference counting of power.subsys_data")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Why is this relevant for stable kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-12 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-28 12:31 [PATCH RESEND] PM: domains: Fix return value of API dev_pm_get_subsys_data() Zijun Hu
2024-11-12 11:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2024-11-12 14:58   ` Zijun Hu
2024-11-13 12:59   ` Zijun Hu

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