When I got my clock parenting slightly wrong I ended up with a crash that looked like this: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 ... pc : clk_hw_get_rate+0x14/0x44 ... Call trace: clk_hw_get_rate+0x14/0x44 _freq_tbl_determine_rate+0x94/0xfc clk_rcg2_determine_rate+0x2c/0x38 clk_core_determine_round_nolock+0x4c/0x88 clk_core_round_rate_nolock+0x6c/0xa8 clk_core_round_rate_nolock+0x9c/0xa8 clk_core_set_rate_nolock+0x70/0x180 clk_set_rate+0x3c/0x6c of_clk_set_defaults+0x254/0x360 platform_drv_probe+0x28/0xb0 really_probe+0x120/0x2dc driver_probe_device+0x64/0xfc device_driver_attach+0x4c/0x6c __driver_attach+0xac/0xc0 bus_for_each_dev+0x84/0xcc driver_attach+0x2c/0x38 bus_add_driver+0xfc/0x1d0 driver_register+0x64/0xf8 __platform_driver_register+0x4c/0x58 msm_drm_register+0x5c/0x60 ... It turned out that clk_hw_get_parent_by_index() was returning NULL and we weren't checking. Let's check it so that we don't crash. Fixes: ac269395cdd8 ("clk: qcom: Convert to clk_hw based provider APIs") Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I haven't gone back and tried to reproduce this same crash on older kernels, but I'll put the blame on commit ac269395cdd8 ("clk: qcom: Convert to clk_hw based provider APIs"). Before that if we got a NULL parent back it was fine and dandy since a NULL "struct clk" is valid to use but a NULL "struct clk_hw" is not. Changes in v3: - Add Matthias tag. Changes in v2: - Patch ("clk: qcom: rcg2: Don't crash...") new for v2. drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rcg2.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rcg2.c b/drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rcg2.c index da045b200def..9098001ac805 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rcg2.c +++ b/drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rcg2.c @@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ static int _freq_tbl_determine_rate(struct clk_hw *hw, const struct freq_tbl *f, clk_flags = clk_hw_get_flags(hw); p = clk_hw_get_parent_by_index(hw, index); + if (!p) + return -EINVAL; + if (clk_flags & CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT) { rate = f->freq; if (f->pre_div) { -- 2.25.0.341.g760bfbb309-goog