[PATCH] pinctrl: bcm2835: Fix a few error paths
Florian Fainelli
f.fainelli at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 08:12:02 PST 2022
On 1/28/2022 6:35 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 01:50:31PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> After commit 266423e60ea1 ("pinctrl: bcm2835: Change init order for gpio
>> hogs") a few error paths would not unwind properly the registration of
>> gpio ranges. Correct that by assigning a single error label and goto it
>> whenever we encounter a fatal error.
>
>> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> While this seems legit per se, my eyes caught this:
>
>
>> if (!girq->parents) {
>> - pinctrl_remove_gpio_range(pc->pctl_dev, &pc->gpio_range);
>> - return -ENOMEM;
>> + err = -ENOMEM;
>> + goto out_remove;
>
> Non-devm....
>
>> }
>>
>> if (is_7211) {
>> pc->wake_irq = devm_kcalloc(dev, BCM2835_NUM_IRQS,
>> sizeof(*pc->wake_irq),
>> GFP_KERNEL);
>
> ...followed by devm.
>
> It means more ordering bugs in the ->remove() and error path are lurking
> around. Can you double check and be sure that we do not have a case where
> non-devm registration code followed by devm?
It seems to me like we are fine with the patch as is, because:
- girq->parents is allocated with devm
- pc->wake_irq is allocated with devm
- name is allocated with devm
and those are the only variables being allocated for which we also
process an error handling path.
--
Florian
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