From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailout1.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.11]:56963 "EHLO mailout1.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752113AbcDSITR (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2016 04:19:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl-exynos5440: Use off-stack memory for pinctrl_gpio_range To: Tomasz Figa , Andrew Jeffery , Sylwester Nawrocki References: <1461039222-26592-1-git-send-email-andrew@aj.id.au> Cc: "linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Walleij , Kukjin Kim , Thomas P Abraham , linux-arm-kernel , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kernel , stable@vger.kernel.org From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Message-id: <5715E9FF.6080000@samsung.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:19:11 +0200 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/19/2016 09:24 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > 2016-04-19 13:13 GMT+09:00 Andrew Jeffery : >> The range is registered into a linked list which can be referenced >> throughout the lifetime of the driver. Ensure the range's memory is useful >> for the same lifetime by adding it to the driver's private data structure. >> >> The bug was introduced in the driver's initial commit, which was present in >> v3.10. >> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery >> Fixes: f0b9a7e521fa ("pinctrl: exynos5440: add pinctrl driver for Samsung EXYNOS5440 SoC") >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >> --- >> This is my first contribution to the kernel, so hopefully I've followed all the >> relevant documentation. If not, please let me know and point me in the right >> direction! >> >> I don't have the means to test the patch, but it compiles. Someone with >> appropriate hardware should probably give it a spin. >> > > Thanks for the patch. Good catch, I wonder how this even worked. Just > one minor nitpick below. > > Unfortunately I don't have any platform based on this SoC to test, so > I'll defer to Krzysztof or Sylwester to handle this. We don't have this board neither, it is not so popular and apparently not many people are using it because such bug remained unnoticed. Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Best regards, Krzysztof