Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] NFC: fix device allocation and nfcmrvl crashes

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Wed Apr 26 2017 - 06:36:52 EST


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 01:24:31AM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:09:16PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:15:34PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > This started out with the observation that the nfcmrvl_uart driver
> > > unconditionally dereferenced the tty class device despite the fact that
> > > not every tty has an associated struct device (Unix98 ptys). Some
> > > further changes were needed in the common nfcmrvl code to fully address
> > > this, some of which also incidentally fixed a few related bugs (e.g.
> > > resource leaks in error paths).
> > >
> > > While fixing this I stumbled over a regression in NFC core that lead to
> > > broken registration error paths and misnamed workqueues.
> > >
> > > Note that this has only been tested by configuring the n_hci line
> > > discipline for different ttys without any actual NFC hardware connected.
> >
> > > Johan Hovold (8):
> > > NFC: fix broken device allocation
> > > NFC: nfcmrvl_uart: add missing tty-device sanity check
> > > NFC: nfcmrvl: do not use device-managed resources
> > > NFC: nfcmrvl: use nfc-device for firmware download
> > > NFC: nfcmrvl: fix firmware-management initialisation
> > > NFC: nfcmrvl_uart: fix device-node leak during probe
> > > NFC: nfcmrvl_usb: use interface as phy device
> > > NFC: nfcmrvl: allow gpio 0 for reset signalling
> >
> > Any chance of getting these into 4.12, Samuel?

> I have yours and Mark Greer patchset pending. I'll push them to nfc-next
> and see if I can send another pull request to Dave by the end of this
> week.

Any progress on this now that we got another week?

Thanks,
Johan