[PATCH] ARM: shmobile: lager: do not annotate gpio_buttons as __initdata

Simon Horman horms+renesas at verge.net.au
Fri Jul 26 05:09:32 EDT 2013


When the gpio-keys device is registered using
platform_device_register_data() the platform data argument,
lager_keys_pdata is duplicated and thus should be marked as __initdata
to avoid wasting memory. However, this is not true of gpio_buttons,
a reference to it rather than its value is duplicated when lager_keys_pdata
is duplicated.

This avoids accessing freed memory if gpio-key events occur
after unused kernel memory is freed late in the kernel's boot.

This but was added when support for gpio-keys was added to lager
in c3842e4fcbb7664276443b79187b7808c2e80a35
("ARM: shmobile: lager: support GPIO switches") which was included
in v3.11-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>

---

* Noticed when adding gpio-keys support to ape6evm
* Compile tested only
---
 arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c
index 3c67b2a..3a1a6fd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static __initdata struct gpio_led_platform_data lager_leds_pdata = {
 #define GPIO_KEY(c, g, d, ...) \
 	{ .code = c, .gpio = g, .desc = d, .active_low = 1 }
 
-static __initdata struct gpio_keys_button gpio_buttons[] = {
+static struct gpio_keys_button gpio_buttons[] = {
 	GPIO_KEY(KEY_4,		RCAR_GP_PIN(1, 28),	"SW2-pin4"),
 	GPIO_KEY(KEY_3,		RCAR_GP_PIN(1, 26),	"SW2-pin3"),
 	GPIO_KEY(KEY_2,		RCAR_GP_PIN(1, 24),	"SW2-pin2"),
-- 
1.8.3.2




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