On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 23:39:47 +0100
Petr Štetiar <ynezz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> My machine Oopsed while testing SCD30 sensor in interrupt driven mode:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000188
> pgd = (ptrval)
> [00000188] *pgd=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.4.96+ #473
> Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree)
> PC is at _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x4c
> LR is at devres_add+0x18/0x38
> ...
> [<8070ecac>] (_raw_spin_lock_irqsave) from [<804916a8>] (devres_add+0x18/0x38)
> [<804916a8>] (devres_add) from [<805ef708>] (devm_iio_trigger_alloc+0x5c/0x7c)
> [<805ef708>] (devm_iio_trigger_alloc) from [<805f0a90>] (scd30_probe+0x1d4/0x3f0)
> [<805f0a90>] (scd30_probe) from [<805f10fc>] (scd30_i2c_probe+0x54/0x64)
> [<805f10fc>] (scd30_i2c_probe) from [<80583390>] (i2c_device_probe+0x150/0x278)
> [<80583390>] (i2c_device_probe) from [<8048e6c0>] (really_probe+0x1f8/0x360)
>
> I've found out, that it's due to missing parent/owner device in iio_dev struct
> which then leads to NULL pointer dereference during spinlock while registering
> the device resource via devres_add().
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.9+
> Fixes: 64b3d8b1b0f5 ("iio: chemical: scd30: add core driver")
> Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@xxxxxxx>
Hi Petr,
So, we moved this into the core a while back (to avoid exactly this sort of issue).
That change predates this introduction of this driver as it went in
in v5.8
So I think you've hit an issue with a backport here to an earlier kernel?
Jonathan
> ---
> drivers/iio/chemical/scd30_core.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/chemical/scd30_core.c b/drivers/iio/chemical/scd30_core.c
> index 4d0d798c7cd3..33aa6eb1963d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/chemical/scd30_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/chemical/scd30_core.c
> @@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ int scd30_probe(struct device *dev, int irq, const char *name, void *priv,
>
> dev_set_drvdata(dev, indio_dev);
>
> + indio_dev->dev.parent = dev;
> indio_dev->info = &scd30_info;
> indio_dev->name = name;
> indio_dev->channels = scd30_channels;
