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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c: drop iounmap for devm_ allocated data
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:36:04 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1112270935410.1838@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324974236.1165.43.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 18:38 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
>>
>> Data allocated with devm_ioremap or devm_ioremap_nocache should not be
>> freed using iounmap, because doing so causes a dangling pointer, and a
>> subsequent double free.
>>
>> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
>> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>>
>> // <smpl>
>> @r@
>> expression x;
>> @@
>> (
>>  x = devm_ioremap(...)
>> |
>>  x = devm_ioremap_nocache(...)
>> )
>>
>> @@
>> expression r.x;
>> @@
>> * iounmap(x)
>> // </smpl>
>
> Thanks Julia,
>
> surely this semantic patch script is worth adding to scripts/coccinelle?
> Are you going to take care of this?

OK, I will do that.

julia

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-27  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-26 17:38 Julia Lawall
2011-12-27  8:23 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-27  8:36   ` Julia Lawall [this message]

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