[PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices

[Li.Xiubo at freescale.com]

[...]
> > I think there should have been a check for NULL on "dev" in
> > "regmap_get_val_endian", so that if dev pointer exist then only it makes
> > sense to get
> > endianness property from DT.
> >
> > I will suggest following fix in regmap.c for this. With following fix I
> > tested it and it works well
> > on linux-next also. So if you can confirm following fix is working for you
> > then I can post this
> > patch.
> >
> 
> I tested the patch work.
> But as Xiubo pointed in another mail, it may still cause other issues.
> Looking at regmap.c, there're still some other places using the device pointer,
> e.g. dev_xxx debug information and some tracepoints also take device pointer
> as parameter(not sure if it will break if dev is NULL).
> Another thing is that if dev is NULL, we may not be able to use regmap debugfs
> feature which seems also not as our expected.
> 
> Maybe we could consider create device structure for each syscon compatible
> device in syscon driver in of_syscon_register in first time which seems to
> be reasonable.
> 
> Regards
> Dong Aisheng
> 
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Subject: [PATCH] regmap: fix NULL pointer dereference in
> >  regmap_get_val_endian
> >
> > Recent commits for getting reg endianess causing NULL pointer
> > dereference if dev is passed NULL in regmap_init_mmio. This patch
> > fixes this issue, and allows to parse reg endianess only if dev
> > and dev->of_node exist.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey at samsung.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c |   23 ++++++++++++++---------
> >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> > index f2281af..455a877 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> > @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static enum regmap_endian regmap_get_val_endian(struct
> > device *dev,
> >  					const struct regmap_bus *bus,
> >  					const struct regmap_config *config)
> >  {
> > -	struct device_node *np = dev->of_node;
> > +	struct device_node *np;

And the 'np' must be NULL as default.

Isn't it ?

Thanks,

BRs
Xiubo

> >  	enum regmap_endian endian;
> >
> >  	/* Retrieve the endianness specification from the regmap config */
> > @@ -487,15 +487,20 @@ static enum regmap_endian regmap_get_val_endian(struct
> > device *dev,
> >  	if (endian != REGMAP_ENDIAN_DEFAULT)
> >  		return endian;
> >
> > -	/* Parse the device's DT node for an endianness specification */
> > -	if (of_property_read_bool(np, "big-endian"))
> > -		endian = REGMAP_ENDIAN_BIG;
> > -	else if (of_property_read_bool(np, "little-endian"))
> > -		endian = REGMAP_ENDIAN_LITTLE;
> > +	/* If the dev and dev->of_node exist try to get endianness from DT
> > */
> > +	if (dev && dev->of_node) {
> > +		np = dev->of_node;
> >
> > -	/* If the endianness was specified in DT, use that */
> > -	if (endian != REGMAP_ENDIAN_DEFAULT)
> > -		return endian;
> > +		/* Parse the device's DT node for an endianness
> > specification */
> > +		if (of_property_read_bool(np, "big-endian"))
> > +			endian = REGMAP_ENDIAN_BIG;
> > +		else if (of_property_read_bool(np, "little-endian"))
> > +			endian = REGMAP_ENDIAN_LITTLE;
> > +
> > +		/* If the endianness was specified in DT, use that */
> > +		if (endian != REGMAP_ENDIAN_DEFAULT)
> > +			return endian;
> > +	}
> >
> >  	/* Retrieve the endianness specification from the bus config */
> >  	if (bus && bus->val_format_endian_default)
> > --
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pankaj Dubey
> >
> > > Regards
> > > Dong Aisheng
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Pankaj Dubey
> > > >
> > > > > Regards
> > > > > Dong Aisheng
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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