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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] remoteproc: core: Cleanup device in case of
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To:     Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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From:   Siddharth Gupta <sidgup@codeaurora.org>
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Date:   Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:21:11 -0700
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On 6/15/2021 12:06 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:03:44PM -0700, Siddharth Gupta wrote:
>> When a failure occurs in rproc_add() it returns an error, but does
>> not cleanup after itself. This change adds the failure path in such
>> cases.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Gupta <sidgup@codeaurora.org>
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> ---
>>   drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> Why is this needed for stable kernels?  And again, a Fixes: tag?
Patch 2 and patch 3 are leading up to fix rproc_add()
in case of a failure. This means we'll have errors with
use after free unless we call device_del() or cdev_del(),
also the sysfs and devtempfs nodes will also not be
removed.

Thanks,
Sid