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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/24] input/keyboard: fix dangling pointers
Hello Dmitry,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:20:07PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Wolfram,
>
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:12:47PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Fix I2C-drivers which missed setting clientdata to NULL before freeing the
> > structure it points to. Also fix drivers which do this _after_ the structure
> > was freed already.
> >
>
> I am not sure if setting clientdata to NULL before freeing the data is
> that important; we really want to be sure that we don't leave clientdata
> dangling when we finish unbinding the driver. If there are another
> thread the change will not really help the problem of accessing
> non-existing client data.

I agree it won't matter in practice. Jean and I concluded it is better
style, though (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.i2c/5392).
Still, I will not insist and leave it up the subsystem maintainers, of
course. I also won't check for that case again in the future.

> I will apply lm8323 portion of the patch but leave qt2160 as is.

Thanks!

Wolfram

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