Platform driver driver_override field should not be initialized from const memory because the core later kfree() it. If driver_override is manually set later through sysfs, kfree() of old value leads to:
$ echo "new_value" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/.../driver_override
kernel BUG at ../mm/slub.c:3960! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM ... (kfree) from [<c058e8c0>] (platform_set_driver_override+0x84/0xac) (platform_set_driver_override) from [<c058e908>] (driver_override_store+0x20/0x34) (driver_override_store) from [<c031f778>] (kernfs_fop_write+0x100/0x1dc) (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c0296de8>] (__vfs_write+0x2c/0x17c) (__vfs_write) from [<c02970c4>] (vfs_write+0xa4/0x188) (vfs_write) from [<c02972e8>] (ksys_write+0x4c/0xac) (ksys_write) from [<c0101000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28)
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org --- drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c index d07ef26bd052..880d92ad20e8 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c +++ b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static int __init exynos5_clk_register_subcmu(struct device *parent, return -ENOMEM;
pdev->dev.parent = parent; - pdev->driver_override = "exynos5-subcmu"; + platform_set_driver_override(pdev, "exynos5-subcmu"); platform_set_drvdata(pdev, (void *)info); of_genpd_add_device(&genpdspec, &pdev->dev); ret = platform_device_add(pdev);