[PATCH 1/3] thermal: exynos: Fix NULL pointer exception during kernel booting

Chanwoo Choi cw00.choi at samsung.com
Mon Feb 16 06:20:12 PST 2015


This patch fixes the NULL pointer exception during kernel booting. The thermal_zone
_of_sensor_register() registers a sensor to DT thermal zone and then read
the current temperature by '.get_temp' callback. The callback function
of exynos thermal driver is exynos_get_temp() which must need the 'pdata'
instance of exynos_tmu _platform_data structure.
- exynos_get_temp() -> code_to_temp() -> Must need the 'pdata' instance

But, exynos thermal driver is executed before getting the 'pdata' instance.
To avoid the kernel panic, have to get the platform data by executing the
exynos_map_dt_data() before calling thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() .

- kernel panic log
[ 4211.324346] PC is at 0x0
[ 4211.326867] LR is at exynos_get_temp+0x3c/0xe4
[ 4211.331289] pc : [<0000000000000000>] lr : [<ffffffc0004df460>]
[snip]
[ 4211.940625] [<          (null)>]           (null)
[ 4211.945315] [<ffffffc0004de6d8>] of_thermal_get_temp+0x1c/0x30
[ 4211.951132] [<ffffffc0004db86c>] thermal_zone_get_temp+0x48/0x7c
[ 4211.957118] [<ffffffc0004dd278>] thermal_zone_device_update+0x20/0x110
[ 4211.963627] [<ffffffc0004de9c8>] of_thermal_set_mode+0x44/0x68
[ 4211.969443] [<ffffffc0004decb8>] thermal_zone_of_sensor_register+0x15c/0x1d8
[ 4211.976475] [<ffffffc0004dfbe4>] exynos_tmu_probe+0x6c/0x814
[ 4211.982120] [<ffffffc0003ef808>] platform_drv_probe+0x48/0xb8
[ 4211.987846] [<ffffffc0003edb28>] driver_probe_device+0x8c/0x244
[ 4211.993747] [<ffffffc0003eddcc>] __driver_attach+0x98/0xa0
[ 4211.999216] [<ffffffc0003ebea0>] bus_for_each_dev+0x54/0x98
[ 4212.004771] [<ffffffc0003ed66c>] driver_attach+0x1c/0x28
[ 4212.010066] [<ffffffc0003ed2e8>] bus_add_driver+0x150/0x208
[ 4212.015622] [<ffffffc0003ee6a4>] driver_register+0x5c/0x11c
[ 4212.021178] [<ffffffc0003ef73c>] __platform_driver_register+0x5c/0x68
[ 4212.027600] [<ffffffc000b64eb8>] exynos_tmu_driver_init+0x14/0x20
[ 4212.033678] [<ffffffc0000828d4>] do_one_initcall+0x88/0x1a0
[ 4212.039235] [<ffffffc000b34b34>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1bc/0x260
[ 4212.045311] [<ffffffc0007e9fd4>] kernel_init+0xc/0xd8

Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang at intel.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi at samsung.com>
---
 drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
index fbeedc0..b8846f1 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
@@ -1147,17 +1147,17 @@ static int exynos_tmu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, data);
 	mutex_init(&data->lock);
 
+	ret = exynos_map_dt_data(pdev);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+	pdata = data->pdata;
+
 	data->tzd = thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(&pdev->dev, 0, data,
 						    &exynos_sensor_ops);
 	if (IS_ERR(data->tzd)) {
 		pr_err("thermal: tz: %p ERROR\n", data->tzd);
 		return PTR_ERR(data->tzd);
 	}
-	ret = exynos_map_dt_data(pdev);
-	if (ret)
-		goto err_sensor;
-
-	pdata = data->pdata;
 
 	INIT_WORK(&data->irq_work, exynos_tmu_work);
 
-- 
1.8.5.5




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