From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754569AbbCFOmp (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:42:45 -0500 Received: from ns.mm-sol.com ([37.157.136.199]:45496 "EHLO extserv.mm-sol.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753230AbbCFOmn (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:42:43 -0500 Message-ID: <54F9BCDC.5000500@mm-sol.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:42:36 +0200 From: Stanimir Varbanov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130330 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matwey V. Kornilov" , bhelgaas@google.com CC: mohit.kumar@st.com, viresh.kumar@linaro.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pci: spear: Drop __initdata from spear13xx_pcie_driver References: <1424367708-17149-1-git-send-email-matwey@sai.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <1424367708-17149-1-git-send-email-matwey@sai.msu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/19/2015 07:41 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: > spear13xx_pcie_driver.driver is allocated in text.init section > and then the pointer to it is passed futher. This patch is to avoid > crashes like the following, when freed memory is used. > What happened with this patch, could it go as a fix? -- regards, Stan