On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:22:44PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva wrote: > When tearingdown timesync, and not in arche platform, the state platform > callback is not initialized. That will trigger the following NULL > dereferencing. > CallTrace: > > ? gb_timesync_platform_unlock_bus+0x11/0x20 [greybus] > gb_timesync_teardown+0x85/0xc0 [greybus] > gb_timesync_svc_remove+0xab/0x190 [greybus] > gb_svc_del+0x29/0x110 [greybus] > gb_hd_del+0x14/0x20 [greybus] > ap_disconnect+0x24/0x60 [gb_es2] > usb_unbind_interface+0x7a/0x2c0 > __device_release_driver+0x96/0x150 > device_release_driver+0x1e/0x30 > bus_remove_device+0xe7/0x130 > device_del+0x116/0x230 > usb_disable_device+0x97/0x1f0 > usb_disconnect+0x80/0x260 > hub_event+0x5ca/0x10e0 > process_one_work+0x126/0x3b0 > worker_thread+0x55/0x4c0 > ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0 > kthread+0xc4/0xe0 > ? kthread_park+0xb0/0xb0 > ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 > > So, fix that by adding checks before use the callback. > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.9.x > Signed-off-by: Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Greg, > This patch does not contain the "commit <sha> upstream" snippet since you > already removed the timesync code from the -next tree. So, It would never get > there. However this will affect the greybus users of 4.9.x. This code is still in Linus tree and 4.10-rc so this is just a normal fix even if this is no longer an issue in -next. > drivers/staging/greybus/timesync_platform.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/timesync_platform.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/timesync_platform.c > index 113f3d6c4b3a..7d3ccc2bc98c 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/timesync_platform.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/timesync_platform.c > @@ -45,13 +45,18 @@ u32 gb_timesync_platform_get_clock_rate(void) > > int gb_timesync_platform_lock_bus(struct gb_timesync_svc *pdata) > { > + if (!arche_platform_change_state_cb) > + return 0; > + > return arche_platform_change_state_cb(ARCHE_PLATFORM_STATE_TIME_SYNC, > pdata); > } > > void gb_timesync_platform_unlock_bus(void) > { > - arche_platform_change_state_cb(ARCHE_PLATFORM_STATE_ACTIVE, NULL); > + if (arche_platform_change_state_cb) > + arche_platform_change_state_cb(ARCHE_PLATFORM_STATE_ACTIVE, > + NULL); I'd use the same pattern here: if (!arche_platform_change_state_cb) return; arche_platform_change_state_cb(ARCHE_PLATFORM_STATE_ACTIVE, NULL); Thanks, Johan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel