Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: imx-wm8962: Fix codec_clk cleanup

[Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Charles Keepax
<ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:58:52AM +0300, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>> Resource managed devm_clk_get only works with platform's device dev.
>>
>
> I feel like this could use an explaination of why not using devm
> is the correct fix, rather than just using the platform device
> for the call. Its not obvious to me, that using the platform
> device would be an issue.

Hi Charles,

I see where the confusion comes from :) and I thought the explanation
is obvious from the code, see inline comments.

Would an explanation like the one below, work better?

" We cannot use devm_clk_get with &codec_dev->dev device because
the kernel uses pdev->dev to free the managed resources, so we will end
up with a leaking codec_clk reference"

>> @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static int imx_wm8962_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>               goto fail;
>>       }

pdev->dev from here:

>>
>> -     codec_clk = devm_clk_get(&codec_dev->dev, NULL);
>> +     codec_clk = clk_get(&codec_dev->dev, NULL);

is different from &codec_dev->dev.

>>       if (IS_ERR(codec_clk)) {
>>               ret = PTR_ERR(codec_clk);
>>               dev_err(&codec_dev->dev, "failed to get codec clk: %d\n", ret);
>> @@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ static int imx_wm8962_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>       }
>>
>>       data->clk_frequency = clk_get_rate(codec_clk);
>> +     clk_put(codec_clk);
>>
>>       data->dai.name = "HiFi";
>>       data->dai.stream_name = "HiFi";

thanks,
Daniel.