[RFC 0/4] clk/driver: platform: Fix kfree() of const memory on setting driver_override

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

Hi,

The problem
===========
Several device types (platform, amba, spi etc.) provide a driver_override
field.  On sysfs store or during device removal, they kfree() the
existing value.

However the users are unaware of this and set the driver_override like:

 	pdev->driver_override = "exynos5-subcmu";

which obviously leads to error.

Solution
========
I provided simple helper for platform device.  If this approach is
acceptable, I can convert also other buses, like AMBA, SPI.


Dependencies and pick up order
==============================
Patch 1: please pick it as is through clock tree
Patch 3: Depends on patch 1 (merge conflict) and 2.
Patch 4: Depends on patch 2.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


Krzysztof Kozlowski (4):
  clk: samsung: exynos5: Fix possible NULL pointer exception on
    platform_device_alloc() failure
  driver: platform: Provide helper for safer setting of driver_override
  clk: samsung: exynos5: Fix kfree() of const memory on setting
    driver_override
  slimbus: ngd: Fix kfree() of const memory on setting driver_override

 drivers/base/platform.c                  | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c | 12 ++++--
 drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c          |  2 +-
 include/linux/platform_device.h          |  9 ++++-
 4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

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