On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit df61b366af26 ('pinctrl: core: Use delayed work for hogs')
> deferred part of the registration for pinctrl devices if the pinctrl
> device has hogs. This introduced a window where if the pinctrl device
> with hogs was sucessfully registered, but then unregistered again
> (which could be caused by parent device being probe deferred) before
> the delayed work has chanced to run, then this will cause a kernel
> panic to occur because:
>
> 1. The 'pctldev->p' has not yet been initialised and when unregistering
> the pinctrl device we only check to see if it is an error value, but
> now it could also be NULL.
> 2. The pinctrl device may not have been added to the 'pinctrldev_list'
> list and we don't check to see if it was added before removing.
>
> Fix up the above by checking to see if the 'pctldev->p' pointer is an
> error value or NULL before putting the pinctrl device and verifying
> that the pinctrl device is present in 'pinctrldev_list' before removing.
>
> Fixes: df61b366af26 ('pinctrl: core: Use delayed work for hogs')
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Oops. Patch applied.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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