Re: [PATCH net v2] net: mdio-ipq4019: fix possible invalid pointer dereference

[Andrew Lunn]

> Hi, Andrew
> 
> My new patchset is ready, but I just found out that another patch has been
> applied to netdev/net.git. Can I solve the problem in present way? And I
> will add devm_ioremap_resource_optional() helper later to optimize related
> drivers. How about this?

This is one of those harder to merge changes. patches to lib/devres.c
generally go via GregKH. Networking changes are merged via the netdev
list.

Did you find this issue via a static analyser? I assume you are
running it over the entire tree and are finding problems in multiple
subsystems? So devm_ioremap_resource_optional() is potentially going
to be needed in lots of places?

One way to get this merged is to cross post the patch adding
devm_ioremap_resource_optional() and ask GregKH to ACK it, and then
get netdev to merge it. You can then use it within the netdev
subsystem. What you cannot do is use it in other subsystems until the
next kernel cycle when it will be globally available.

So three patches. One adding devm_ioremap_resource_optional(), one to
revert the 'fix', and one with the real fix using
devm_ioremap_resource_optional().

     Andrew