1 files changed, 43 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
index 001622eb86f9..3bf8ee120d42 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
@@ -84,20 +84,23 @@ static struct kobj_type memmap_ktype = {
  */
 
 /*
- * Firmware memory map entries
+ * Firmware memory map entries. No locking is needed because the
+ * firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early() functions are called
+ * in firmware initialisation code in one single thread of execution.
  */
 static LIST_HEAD(map_entries);
 
 /**
- * Common implementation of firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early()
- * which expects a pre-allocated struct firmware_map_entry.
- *
+ * firmware_map_add_entry() - Does the real work to add a firmware memmap entry.
  * @start: Start of the memory range.
  * @end:   End of the memory range (inclusive).
  * @type:  Type of the memory range.
  * @entry: Pre-allocated (either kmalloc() or bootmem allocator), uninitialised
  *         entry.
- */
+ *
+ * Common implementation of firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early()
+ * which expects a pre-allocated struct firmware_map_entry.
+ **/
 static int firmware_map_add_entry(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end,
                                   const char *type,
                                   struct firmware_map_entry *entry)
@@ -115,33 +118,52 @@ static int firmware_map_add_entry(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end,
         return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * See <linux/firmware-map.h> for documentation.
- */
+/**
+ * firmware_map_add() - Adds a firmware mapping entry.
+ * @start: Start of the memory range.
+ * @end:   End of the memory range (inclusive).
+ * @type:  Type of the memory range.
+ *
+ * This function uses kmalloc() for memory
+ * allocation. Use firmware_map_add_early() if you want to use the bootmem
+ * allocator.
+ *
+ * That function must be called before late_initcall.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, or -ENOMEM if no memory could be allocated.
+ **/
 int firmware_map_add(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end,
                      const char *type)
 {
         struct firmware_map_entry *entry;
 
         entry = kmalloc(sizeof(struct firmware_map_entry), GFP_ATOMIC);
-        WARN_ON(!entry);
         if (!entry)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
         return firmware_map_add_entry(start, end, type, entry);
 }
 
-/*
- * See <linux/firmware-map.h> for documentation.
- */
+/**
+ * firmware_map_add_early() - Adds a firmware mapping entry.
+ * @start: Start of the memory range.
+ * @end:   End of the memory range (inclusive).
+ * @type:  Type of the memory range.
+ *
+ * Adds a firmware mapping entry. This function uses the bootmem allocator
+ * for memory allocation. Use firmware_map_add() if you want to use kmalloc().
+ *
+ * That function must be called before late_initcall.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, or -ENOMEM if no memory could be allocated.
+ **/
 int __init firmware_map_add_early(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end,
                                   const char *type)
 {
         struct firmware_map_entry *entry;
 
         entry = alloc_bootmem_low(sizeof(struct firmware_map_entry));
-        WARN_ON(!entry);
-        if (!entry)
+        if (WARN_ON(!entry))
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
         return firmware_map_add_entry(start, end, type, entry);
@@ -183,7 +205,10 @@ static ssize_t memmap_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 /*
  * Initialises stuff and adds the entries in the map_entries list to
  * sysfs. Important is that firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early()
- * must be called before late_initcall.
+ * must be called before late_initcall. That's just because that function
+ * is called as late_initcall() function, which means that if you call
+ * firmware_map_add() or firmware_map_add_early() afterwards, the entries
+ * are not added to sysfs.
  */
 static int __init memmap_init(void)
 {
@@ -192,13 +217,13 @@ static int __init memmap_init(void)
         struct kset *memmap_kset;
 
         memmap_kset = kset_create_and_add("memmap", NULL, firmware_kobj);
-        WARN_ON(!memmap_kset);
-        if (!memmap_kset)
+        if (WARN_ON(!memmap_kset))
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
         list_for_each_entry(entry, &map_entries, list) {
                 entry->kobj.kset = memmap_kset;
-                kobject_add(&entry->kobj, NULL, "%d", i++);
+                if (kobject_add(&entry->kobj, NULL, "%d", i++))
+                        kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
         }
 
         return 0;