Hi,
On Sunday 29 November 2015 14:44:30 Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On 17.11.2015 13:50, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> > Hi Vladimir,
> >
> > On Tuesday 17 November 2015 13:20:40 Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> >> Hi Markus,
> >>
> >> On 17.11.2015 11:24, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday 11 November 2015 14:36:53 Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> >>>> Commit c0017ed71966 ("gpio: Introduce gpio descriptor 'name'") causes
> >>>> OOPS on boot on LPC32xx boards:
> >>>>
> >>>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> >>>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.3.0+ #707
> >>>> Hardware name: LPC32XX SoC (Flattened Device Tree)
> >>>> task: c381baa0 ti: c381e000 task.ti: c381e000
> >>>> PC is at strcmp+0x10/0x40
> >>>> LR is at gpiochip_add+0x3d0/0x4d4
> >>>> pc : [<>] lr : [<>] psr: a0000093
> >>>> sp : c381fd60 ip : c381fd70 fp : c381fd6c
> >>>>
> >>>> [snip]
> >>>>
> >>>> Backtrace:
> >>>> [<>] (strcmp) from [<>] (gpiochip_add+0x3d0/0x4d4)
> >>>> [<>] (gpiochip_add) from [<>] (lpc32xx_gpio_probe+0x44/0x60)
> >>>> [<>] (lpc32xx_gpio_probe) from [<>] (platform_drv_probe+0x40/0x8c)
> >>>> [<>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<>] (driver_probe_device+0x110/0x294)
> >>>> [<>] (driver_probe_device) from [<>] (__driver_attach+0x70/0x94)
> >>>> [<>] (__driver_attach) from [<>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0x98)
> >>>> [<>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<>] (driver_attach+0x20/0x28)
> >>>> [<>] (driver_attach) from [<>] (bus_add_driver+0xd4/0x1f0)
> >>>> [<>] (bus_add_driver) from [<>] (driver_register+0xa4/0xe8)
> >>>> [<>] (driver_register) from [<>] (__platform_driver_register+0x38/0x4c)
> >>>> [<>] (__platform_driver_register) from [<>] (lpc32xx_gpio_driver_init+0x18/0x20)
> >>>> [<>] (lpc32xx_gpio_driver_init) from [<>] (do_one_initcall+0x108/0x1c8)
> >>>> [<>] (do_one_initcall) from [<>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x10c/0x1d4)
> >>>> [<>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<>] (kernel_init+0x10/0xec)
> >>>> [<>] (kernel_init) from [<>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)
> >>>>
> >>>> This is caused by the fact that at the moment some GPIO names are set
> >>>> to NULL, there is a hole in linear representation of one GPI bank, see
> >>>> drivers/gpio/gpio-lpc32xx.c / gpi_p3_names[] for details.
> >>>>
> >>>> The same problem most probably affects also gpio-cs5535.c, see
> >>>> cs5535_gpio_names[].
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> Linus, Markus,
> >>>>
> >>>> I understand that LPC32xx GPIO driver is ugly (hopefully this
> >>>> will be changed in future), but please account this problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't ask for inclusion of this change, because my own analysis is
> >>>> not done completely.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also please review, the same problem probably affects gpio-cs5535.c
> >>>> as well, see cs5535_gpio_names[].
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for this hint. But I think these patches for gpio_name_to_desc won't get
> >>> mainline any time soon as this depends on the chardev interface and how it will
> >>> look like.
> >>>
> >>
> >> sorry for misunderstanding, what do mean by "these patches"?
> >>
> >> I see two options here, one is to fix or revert your c0017ed71966 due to
> >> caused regressions, another one is to update affected GPIO drivers
> >> removing discontinuity in GPIO enumeration inside a bank.
> >
> > Sorry, seems I was on a wrong kernel version when checking this morning. Linus
> > removed lots of my patches from his tree after some correct comments so I
> > thought this patch was removed as well.
>
> Linus, should I resend this fix for v4.4 or is it good enough for
> application?
>
> > As it is mainline your patch looks good to me. Perhaps a comment on why we need
> > to check for !name at this point would be good.
>
> There is such a description in the commit message, why this check is needed.
I meant a code comment. But that's not too important.
Best Regards,
Markus
>
> With best wishes,
> Vladimir
>
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >>
> >> With best wishes,
> >> Vladimir
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +-
> >>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >>>> index a18f00f..2a91f32 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >>>> @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static struct gpio_desc *gpio_name_to_desc(const char * const name)
> >>>> for (i = 0; i != chip->ngpio; ++i) {
> >>>> struct gpio_desc *gpio = &chip->desc[i];
> >>>>
> >>>> - if (!gpio->name)
> >>>> + if (!gpio->name || !name)
> >>>> continue;
> >>>>
> >>>> if (!strcmp(gpio->name, name)) {
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
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