Commit 77d26dc9b9805f322f5a1f6e559b18ad66205bd9

Authored by Ma Ling
Committed by Dave Airlie
1 parent d9c6f54646

drm: clean dirty memory after device release

In current code we register/unregister connector object by
drm_sysfs_connector_add/remove function.

However under some cases, we need to dynamically register or unregister device
multiple times, so we have to go through register -> unregister ->register
routine.

Because after device_unregister function our memory is dirty, we need to do
clean operation in order to re-register the device, otherwise the system
will crash.  The patch intends to clean device after device release.

Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

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drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sysfs.c
... ... @@ -132,6 +132,7 @@
132 132 */
133 133 static void drm_sysfs_device_release(struct device *dev)
134 134 {
  135 + memset(dev, 0, sizeof(struct device));
135 136 return;
136 137 }
137 138