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Josh Cartwright committed 969f07b445d
gpio: use kzalloc to allocate gpio_device The use of kmalloc() to allocate the gpio_device leaves the contained struct device object in an unknown state. Calling dev_set_name() on a struct device of unknown state can trigger the free() of an invalid pointer, as seen in the following backtrace (collected by Tony Lindgren): kfree kobject_set_name_vargs dev_set_name gpiochip_add_data omap_gpio_probe platform_drv_probe ... Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Reported-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Tested-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Cartwright <joshc@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>