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Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:58:04 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
Cc:     patches@opensource.cirrus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20200917120828.12987-1-ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] regmap: debugfs: Fix handling of name string for debugfs init delays
Message-Id: <160036907918.20286.4753770618414417911.b4-ty@kernel.org>
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:08:28 +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> In regmap_debugfs_init the initialisation of the debugfs is delayed
> if the root node isn't ready yet. Most callers of regmap_debugfs_init
> pass the name from the regmap_config, which is considered temporary
> ie. may be unallocated after the regmap_init call returns. This leads
> to a potential use after free, where config->name has been freed by
> the time it is used in regmap_debugfs_initcall.
> 
> [...]

Applied to

   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap.git for-next

Thanks!

[1/1] regmap: debugfs: Fix handling of name string for debugfs init delays
      commit: 94cc89eb8fa5039fcb6e3e3d50f929ddcccee095

All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
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Thanks,
Mark