linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] rtc: ac100: Fix ac100 determine rate bug

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Message-ID: <20180227090913.3vb6yudd4nh2wlyh@flea>
Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:09:13 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
To:     Philipp Rossak <embed3d@...il.com>
Cc:     wens@...e.org, a.zummo@...ertech.it, alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com,
        mturquette@...libre.com, sboyd@...eaurora.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] rtc: ac100: Fix ac100 determine rate bug

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:19:01PM +0100, Philipp Rossak wrote:
> This patch fixes a bug, that prevents the Allwinner A83T and the A80
> from a successful boot.
> 
> The bug is there since v4.16-rc1 and appeared after the clk branch was
> merged.
> 
> You can find the shortend trace below:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000000
> pgd = (ptrval)
> [00000000] *pgd=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 49 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.15.0-10190-gb89e32ccd1be #2
> Hardware name: Allwinner sun8i Family
> Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func
> PC is at clk_hw_get_rate+0x0/0x34
> LR is at ac100_clkout_determine_rate+0x48/0x19c
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> (clk_hw_get_rate) from (ac100_clkout_determine_rate+0x48/0x19c)
> (ac100_clkout_determine_rate) from  (clk_core_set_rate_nolock+0x3c/0x1a0)
> (clk_core_set_rate_nolock) from (clk_set_rate+0x30/0x88)
> (clk_set_rate) from (of_clk_set_defaults+0x200/0x364)
> (of_clk_set_defaults) from (platform_drv_probe+0x18/0xb0)
> 
> To fix that bug, we first check if the return of the
> clk_hw_get_parent_by_index is non zero. If it is zero we skip that
> clock parent.
> 
> The BUG report could be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/10/198
> 
> Fixes: 04940631b8d2 ("rtc: ac100: Add clk output support")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Rossak <embed3d@...il.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>

Thanks!
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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