[PATCH v6 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers
Bartosz Golaszewski
bgolaszewski at baylibre.com
Wed Dec 16 05:37:02 EST 2020
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 5:48 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<nsaenzjulienne at suse.de> 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 <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne at suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>
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