linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] pinctrl: mt7622: fix a kernel panic when gpio-hog is being applied

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdbeui8gB0xKw6SC=PyZq-YCNp-+VXE8Enz0Byyy01AGaA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:22:06 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
Cc:     "moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support" 
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] pinctrl: mt7622: fix a kernel panic when gpio-hog is
 being applied

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 5:49 AM <sean.wang@...iatek.com> wrote:

> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
>
> When we are explicitly using GPIO hogging mechanism in the pinctrl node,
> such as:
>
>         &pio {
>                 line_input {
>                         gpio-hog;
>                         gpios = <95 0>, <96 0>, <97 0>;
>                         input;
>                 };
>         };
>
> A kernel panic happens at dereferencing a NULL pointer: In this case, the
> drvdata is still not setup properly yet when it is being accessed.
>
> A better solution for fixing up this issue should be we should obtain the
> private data from struct gpio_chip using a specific gpiochip_get_data
> instead of a generic dev_get_drvdata.
>
> [    0.249424] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
>                address 000000c8
> [    0.257818] Mem abort info:
> [    0.260704]   ESR = 0x96000005
> [    0.263869]   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> [    0.270011]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> [    0.273167]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> [    0.276421] Data abort info:
> [    0.279398]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005
> [    0.283372]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
> [    0.286440] [00000000000000c8] user address but active_mm is swapper
> [    0.293027] Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [    0.298795] Modules linked in:
> [    0.301958] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc1+ #389
> [    0.308716] Hardware name: MediaTek MT7622 RFB1 board (DT)
> [    0.314396] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO)
> [    0.319362] pc : mtk_hw_pin_field_get+0x28/0x118
> [    0.324140] lr : mtk_hw_set_value+0x30/0x104
> [    0.328557] sp : ffffff800801b6d0
> [    0.331983] x29: ffffff800801b6d0 x28: ffffff80086b7970
> [    0.337484] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffffff80087b8000
> [    0.342986] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffffffc00324c230
> [    0.348487] x23: 0000000000000003 x22: 0000000000000000
> [    0.353988] x21: ffffff80087b8000 x20: 0000000000000000
> [    0.359489] x19: 0000000000000054 x18: 00000000fffff7c0
> [    0.364990] x17: 0000000000006300 x16: 000000000000003f
> [    0.370492] x15: 000000000000000e x14: ffffffffffffffff
> [    0.375993] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000020
> [    0.381494] x11: 0000000000000006 x10: 0101010101010101
> [    0.386995] x9 : fffffffffffffffa x8 : 0000000000000007
> [    0.392496] x7 : ffffff80085d63f8 x6 : 0000000000000003
> [    0.397997] x5 : 0000000000000054 x4 : ffffffc0031eb800
> [    0.403499] x3 : ffffff800801b728 x2 : 0000000000000003
> [    0.409000] x1 : 0000000000000054 x0 : 0000000000000000
> [    0.414502] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x000000002a913c1c)
> [    0.421441] Call trace:
> [    0.423968]  mtk_hw_pin_field_get+0x28/0x118
> [    0.428387]  mtk_hw_set_value+0x30/0x104
> [    0.432445]  mtk_gpio_set+0x20/0x28
> [    0.436052]  mtk_gpio_direction_output+0x18/0x30
> [    0.440833]  gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit+0x7c/0xa0
> [    0.446333]  gpiod_direction_output+0x104/0x114
> [    0.451022]  gpiod_configure_flags+0xbc/0xfc
> [    0.455441]  gpiod_hog+0x8c/0x140
> [    0.458869]  of_gpiochip_add+0x27c/0x2d4
> [    0.462928]  gpiochip_add_data_with_key+0x338/0x5f0
> [    0.467976]  mtk_pinctrl_probe+0x388/0x400
> [    0.472217]  platform_drv_probe+0x58/0xa4
> [    0.476365]  driver_probe_device+0x204/0x44c
> [    0.480783]  __device_attach_driver+0xac/0x108
> [    0.485384]  bus_for_each_drv+0x7c/0xac
> [    0.489352]  __device_attach+0xa0/0x144
> [    0.493320]  device_initial_probe+0x10/0x18
> [    0.497647]  bus_probe_device+0x2c/0x8c
> [    0.501616]  device_add+0x2f8/0x540
> [    0.505226]  of_device_add+0x3c/0x44
> [    0.508925]  of_platform_device_create_pdata+0x80/0xb8
> [    0.514245]  of_platform_bus_create+0x290/0x3e8
> [    0.518933]  of_platform_populate+0x78/0x100
> [    0.523352]  of_platform_default_populate+0x24/0x2c
> [    0.528403]  of_platform_default_populate_init+0x94/0xa4
> [    0.533903]  do_one_initcall+0x98/0x130
> [    0.537874]  kernel_init_freeable+0x13c/0x1d4
> [    0.542385]  kernel_init+0x10/0xf8
> [    0.545903]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> [    0.549603] Code: 900020a1 f9400800 911dcc21 1400001f (f9406401)
> [    0.555916] ---[ end trace de8c34787fdad3b3 ]---
> [    0.560722] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>                exitcode=0x0000000b
> [    0.560722]
> [    0.570188] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> [    0.574253] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill
>                init! exitcode=0x0000000b
> [    0.574253]
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: d6ed93551320 ("pinctrl: mediatek: add pinctrl driver for MT7622 SoC")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>

Patch applied for fixes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij