[PATCH] watchdog/sama5d4: set platform driver data before requesting IRQ

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 18:07:31 PDT 2026


sama5d4_wdt_probe() requests a shared IRQ before calling
platform_set_drvdata().  Because the IRQ is shared, the handler
(sama5d4_wdt_irq_handler) can fire immediately, at which point
platform_get_drvdata() returns NULL and the subsequent dereference
of wdt->sam9x60_support causes a NULL pointer crash.

Move platform_set_drvdata() to the beginning of probe, right after
watchdog_set_drvdata(), so the handler always sees valid driver data.

Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c
index e82b91513fa8..024300299b57 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ static int sama5d4_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 						: AT91_WDT_WDDIS;
 
 	watchdog_set_drvdata(wdd, wdt);
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, wdt);
 
 	regs = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
 	if (IS_ERR(regs))
@@ -315,8 +316,6 @@ static int sama5d4_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, wdt);
-
 	dev_info(dev, "initialized (timeout = %d sec, nowayout = %d)\n",
 		 wdd->timeout, nowayout);
 
-- 
2.54.0




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