Re: [PATCH] spi: Fix NULL pointer when setting SPI_CS_HIGH for GPIO CS

[Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 04:13:09PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> Even if the flag use_gpio_descriptors is set, it is possible that
>> cs_gpiods was not allocated, which leads to a kernel crash:
>> 
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
>> pgd = (ptrval)
>> [00000000] *pgd=00000000
>> Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] ARM
>> Modules linked in:
>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W         5.4.0-rc3 #1
>> Hardware name: NVIDIA Tegra SoC (Flattened Device Tree)
>> PC is at of_register_spi_device+0x20c/0x38c
>> LR is at __of_find_property+0x3c/0x60
>> pc : [<c09b45dc>]    lr : [<c0c47a98>]    psr: 20000013
>
> Please think hard before including complete backtraces in upstream
> reports, they are very large and contain almost no useful information
> relative to their size so often obscure the relevant content in your
> message. If part of the backtrace is usefully illustrative then it's
> usually better to pull out the relevant sections.

You can remove it while applying it, or I can send a v2.

Actually I thought you would squash it with the initial patch to avoid
the bisectability break.

Gregory


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