[PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: Don't underestimate number of functions

[Maxime Ripard]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 02:25:48PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> When we are building all the various pinctrl structures for the
> Allwinner pinctrl devices, we do some estimation about the maximum
> number of distinct function (names) that we will need.
> 
> So far we take the number of pins as an upper bound, even though we
> can actually have up to four special functions per pin. This wasn't a
> problem until now, since we indeed have typically far more pins than
> functions, and most pins share common functions.
> 
> However the H616 "-r" pin controller has only two pins, but four
> functions, so we run over the end of the array when we are looking for
> a matching function name in sunxi_pinctrl_add_function - there is no
> NULL sentinel left that would terminate the loop:
> 
> [    8.200648] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffdff7efbefaff5
> [    8.209179] Mem abort info:
> ....
> [    8.368456] Call trace:
> [    8.370925]  __pi_strcmp+0x90/0xf0
> [    8.374559]  sun50i_h616_r_pinctrl_probe+0x1c/0x28
> [    8.379557]  platform_probe+0x68/0xd8
> 
> Do an actual worst case allocation (4 functions per pin, three common
> functions and the sentinel) for the initial array allocation. This is
> now heavily overestimating the number of functions in the common case,
> but we will reallocate this array later with the actual number of
> functions, so it's only temporarily.
> 
> Fixes: 561c1cf17c46 ("pinctrl: sunxi: Add support for the Allwinner H616-R pin controller")
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>

Thanks!
Maxime
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