From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756250Ab0C3Mti (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:49:38 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:52752 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755720Ab0C3Mtg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:49:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:49:32 +0200 From: Wolfram Sang To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Gortmaker , Alessandro Zummo , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/24] rtc: fix dangling pointers Message-ID: <20100330124932.GM29472@pengutronix.de> References: <1269094385-16114-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> <1269094385-16114-19-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UUMz/kfoogzZ9WLZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1269094385-16114-19-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: wsa@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --UUMz/kfoogzZ9WLZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:12:59PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Fix I2C-drivers which missed setting clientdata to NULL before freeing the > structure it points to. Also fix drivers which do this _after_ the struct= ure > was freed already. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang > Cc: Paul Gortmaker > Cc: Alessandro Zummo please drop this this patch. We reached an agreement that a) setting the clientdata-pointer to NULL should be done in the i2c-core [1] and b) how to= do it. Based on that, I will do the modification of the i2c-core for 2.6.34 (a= s it fixes the dangling pointers) and then create one single patch removing the = then superflous calls to i2c_set_clientdata for 2.6.35 (as it is a cleanup). If = you already applied the above patch to your branch, you don't have to revert; we will fix it for you in the next round. Sorry for the detour! Kind regards, Wolfram [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.i2c/5674/focus=3D5729 --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | --UUMz/kfoogzZ9WLZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkux81wACgkQD27XaX1/VRtx5wCfZgJACPD30QCZN1KMxLrVxLM/ cA8AoK1bGXV51a1vgcx8HLAsA59LAEEc =c4Fm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UUMz/kfoogzZ9WLZ--