Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 5 authors, 2020-12-09

Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-12-02 17:27:17
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-clk, linux-devicetree, linux-gpio, linux-pwm, lkml


On 11/23/2020 10:38 AM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
When unbinding the firmware device we need to make sure it has no
consumers left. Otherwise we'd leave them with a firmware handle
pointing at freed memory.

Keep a reference count of all consumers and introduce rpi_firmware_put()
which will permit automatically decrease the reference count upon
unbinding consumer drivers.

Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <redacted>
This looks fine to me, just one nit below:

[snip]
 /**
- * rpi_firmware_get - Get pointer to rpi_firmware structure.
Is not removing this line going to create a kernel doc warning?

With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Florian
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