Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed Dec 16 2020 - 05:38:15 EST


On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 5:48 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When unbinding the firmware device we need to make sure it has no
> consumers left. Otherwise we'd leave them with a firmware handle
> pointing at freed memory.
>
> Keep a reference count of all consumers and introduce rpi_firmware_put()
> which will permit automatically decrease the reference count upon
> unbinding consumer drivers.
>
> Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>