[PATCH] MMC: fix sdhci-dove removal

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 15 11:07:04 EDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:58:55PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 11:44 Mon 15 Oct     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:37:25AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > 1. Unregister the device _BEFORE_ taking away any resources it may
> > > >    be using.
> > > > 2. Don't check clks against NULL.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > > 
> > > Looking at this driver some more, who the hell came up with the sdhci
> > > registration interface?  It violates one of the most fundamental
> > > principles of kernel driver programming.  You do _NOT_ publish your
> > > driver interfaces _UNTIL_ you have finished setting your device up.
> > > Otherwise, in a preemptible or SMP kernel, your driver can be used
> > > before the initialization has completed.
> > > 
> > > As this driver calls sdhci_pltfm_register() before it has obtained the
> > > clock for the interface, and this function does:
> > > 	sdhci_pltfm_init
> > > 	sdhci_add_host
> > > 		mmc_add_host
> > > 			mmc_start_host
> > > 				mmc_power_up
> > > 					mmc_set_ios
> > > 						sdhci_set_ios
> > > 
> > > See, we're trying to power up and clock the card _before_ the dove
> > > sdhci driver has even claimed the clock let alone enabled it.  This
> > > is total bollocks.  The sdhci platform interface is total crap for
> > > creating this broken design in the first place.  This is why MMC has
> > > the init + add interfaces, they're there to allow drivers to do stuff
> > > the Right(tm) way and avoid shit like the above.
> > > 
> > > This should have been picked up at review time before the driver went
> > > into mainline.  In any case, it needs to be fixed.
> > 
> > Here's an updated patch which just about fixes the sdhci-dove driver.
> > I would not be surprised given the idiotic sdhci-pltfm API if many
> > other drivers suffered the same bug.
> > 
> > 8<====
> > From: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > Subject: [PATCH] MMC: fix sdhci-dove probe/removal
> > 
> > 1. Never ever publish a device in the system before it has been setup
> >    to a usable state.
> > 2. Unregister the device _BEFORE_ taking away any resources it may be
> >    using.
> > 3. Don't check clks against NULL.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-dove.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-dove.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-dove.c
> > index a6e53a1..7d3a4e4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-dove.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-dove.c
> > @@ -83,30 +83,31 @@ static int __devinit sdhci_dove_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	struct sdhci_dove_priv *priv;
> >  	int ret;
> >  
> > -	ret = sdhci_pltfm_register(pdev, &sdhci_dove_pdata);
> > -	if (ret)
> > -		goto sdhci_dove_register_fail;
> > -
> >  	priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct sdhci_dove_priv),
> >  			    GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!priv) {
> >  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to allocate private data");
> > -		ret = -ENOMEM;
> > -		goto sdhci_dove_allocate_fail;
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	priv->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> you have devm_clk_get too
> 
> maybe you could use it here too

This isn't a cleanup patch, this is a patch just to fix some stupid bugs
in this code.  If someone wants to convert that afterwards, it should be
an entirely separate patch.



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