Re: [PATCH RESEND] mfd: mc13xxx: Fix null pointer dereference in mc13xxx_common_init

Alexander Shiyan shc_work at mail.ru
Mon Dec 2 06:11:03 EST 2013




Понедельник,  2 декабря 2013, 10:56 UTC от Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> 
> > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 08:55:37AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > > If this driver being loaded from devicetree, the pdata is NULL.
> > > > This cause kernel Oops when "fsl,mc13xxx-uses-codec" and/or
> > > > "fsl,mc13xxx-uses-touch" properties is specified.
> > > > 
> > > > mc13xxx spi0.0: mc13783: rev: 3.3, fin: 0, fab: 0, icid: 2/0
> > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018
> > ...
> > > > -	if (mc13xxx->flags & MC13XXX_USE_TOUCHSCREEN)
> > > > +	if ((mc13xxx->flags & MC13XXX_USE_CODEC) && pdata)
> > > 
> > > Why do we check for CODEC if the Touchscreen should be used?
> > 
> > Oops, my fault, copy/paste bug.
> > I'll send the corrected version.
> 
> No, please don't.
> 
> Just provide proper Device Tree support.

I still have two incomplete MC13XXX DT-related patches.
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-June/175099.html
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/182116.html

I'll resume to work on this (and CODEC & TS too).
Thanks.

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