On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 07:03:23PM +0530, Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu wrote: > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 14 struct lpass_macro *lpass_macro_pds_init(struct device *dev) > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 15 { > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 16 struct lpass_macro *l_pds; > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 17 int ret; > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 18 > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 19 if (!of_find_property(dev->of_node, "power-domains", NULL)) > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 20 return NULL; > > > > Returning NULL here will lead to a crash in tx_macro_runtime_resume() > > > > When a function returns a mix of NULL and error pointers, then NULL > > means the feature is deliberately disabled. It's not an error, it's a > > deliberate choice by the distro or sys admin. The caller has to > > be written to allow the feature to be disabled. > > > > An example of this might be LEDs. Maybe people don't want LEDs so code > > has to asume that the led->ops pointer might be NULL and check for that > > before dereferencing it. > > Actually, it's optional here. For some targets, with lpass ADSP enabled, > power domains are not required. > > So is the reason, returning NULL Here. > Unfortunately, the caller is not written to handle NULLs so it will crash. sound/soc/codecs/lpass-tx-macro.c 1913 static int tx_macro_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) 1914 { 1915 struct tx_macro *tx = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev); 1916 1917 clk_disable_unprepare(tx->macro); 1918 clk_disable_unprepare(tx->dcodec); 1919 clk_disable_unprepare(tx->mclk); 1920 clk_disable_unprepare(tx->npl); 1921 clk_disable_unprepare(tx->fsgen); 1922 1923 lpass_macro_pds_exit(tx->pds); ^^^^^^^ Boom. 1924 1925 return 0; 1926 } > > > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 21 > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 22 l_pds = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*l_pds), GFP_KERNEL); > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 23 if (!l_pds) > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 24 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > > > > Good. > > > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 25 > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 26 l_pds->macro_pd = dev_pm_domain_attach_by_name(dev, "macro"); > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 27 if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(l_pds->macro_pd)) > > 9e3d83c52844f95 Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu 2022-02-26 28 return NULL; > > > > If this feature is optional then it should be: > > > > if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(l_pds->macro_pd)) > > return ERR_CAST(l_pds->macro_pd); > > > > The admin deliberately chose to enable the feature so we can't just > > ignore errors and convert them to NULL. > > Here it's not optional, if power domains feature is available then macro and > dcodec power domains should be present. > > So will update it like below. > > if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(l_pds->macro_pd)) { > ret = PTR_ERR(l_pds->macro_pd); > goto macro_err; > } I bet COMPILE_TEST allows this to compile without CONFIG_PM but there isn't anything we can do about that... regards, dan carpenter