RE: [PATCH V7 01/11] iommu/of: Refactor of_iommu_configure() for error handling

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Hi Robin,

>> [..]
>>
>>>>> +const struct iommu_ops *of_iommu_configure(struct device *dev,
>>>>> +                       struct device_node *master_np)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +    const struct iommu_ops *ops;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    if (!master_np)
>>>>> +        return NULL;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    if (dev_is_pci(dev))
>>>>> +        ops = of_pci_iommu_init(to_pci_dev(dev), master_np);
>>>>
>>>> I gave the whole patch set a try on ThunderX. really_probe() is failing
>>>> on dma_configure()->of_pci_iommu_init() for each PCI device.
>>>
>>> When you say "failing", do you mean cleanly, or with a crash? I've
>>> managed to hit __of_match_node() dereferencing NULL from
>>> of_iommu_xlate() in a horribly complicated chain of events, which I'm
>>> trying to figure out now, and I wonder if the two might be related.
>>
>> Sorry that there is crash still. __of_match_node seems to checking
>> for NULL arguments , feels like some invalid pointer was passed in.
>> Is there any particular sequence to try for this ?
>
>Ah, I did figure it out - it wasn't actually a NULL dereference, but an
>unmapped address. Turns out __iommu_of_table is in initdata, so any
>driver probing after init, connected to an unprobed IOMMU (in this case
>disabled in DT), trips over trying to match the now-freed table. I'm
>working on the fix - technically the bug's in my patch (#2) anyway ;)
>

Ok, thanks for bringing this out. There is also an issue that
Sinan has mentioned while testing the ACPI hotplug path, probably
its related to the above, not sure. I will try to check more on that
in the meanwhile. Then, taking your fix and fixing the hotplug case
i will do one more repost.

Regards,
 Sricharan

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