Re: [PATCH] regmap: irq: Set data pointer only on regmap_add_irq_chip success

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Mar 13 2014 - 10:13:33 EST


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:06:01AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> After setting the 'data' pointer (wchich is returned to the caller for
> freeing later) the regmap_add_irq_chip() could still fail for various
> reasons (ENOMEM, regmap_read or regmap_write failure). In such case the
> memory under 'data' was freed in error path and error value was returned
> but the 'data' variable was not changed.
>
> This could lead to errors if the caller passed such 'data' to
> regmap_del_irq_chip().

If the user is calling regmap_del_irq_chip() after the add failed then
I'd expect things to break anyway...

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