Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Use fwnode_init() to set up fwnode

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Dec 11 2020 - 15:55:27 EST


On Friday, December 11, 2020 9:26:29 PM CET Saravana Kannan wrote:
> Commit 01bb86b380a3 ("driver core: Add fwnode_init()") was supposed to
> fix up all instances of fwnode creation to use fwnode_init(). But looks
> like this instance was missed. This causes a NULL pointer dereference
> during device_add() [1]. So, fix it.
>
> [ 60.792324][ T1] Call trace:
> [ 60.795495][ T1] device_add+0xf60/0x16b0
> __fw_devlink_link_to_consumers at drivers/base/core.c:1583
> (inlined by) fw_devlink_link_device at drivers/base/core.c:1726
> (inlined by) device_add at drivers/base/core.c:3088
> [ 60.799813][ T1] platform_device_add+0x274/0x628
> [ 60.804833][ T1] acpi_iort_init+0x9d8/0xc50
> [ 60.809415][ T1] acpi_init+0x45c/0x4e8
> [ 60.813556][ T1] do_one_initcall+0x170/0xb70
> [ 60.818224][ T1] kernel_init_freeable+0x6a8/0x734
> [ 60.823332][ T1] kernel_init+0x18/0x12c
> [ 60.827566][ T1] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
> [ 60.838756][ T1] ---[ end trace fa5c8ce17a226d83 ]---
>
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/02e7047071f0b54b046ac472adeeb3fafabc643c.camel@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: 01bb86b380a3 ("driver core: Add fwnode_init()")
> Reported-by: Qian Cai <qcai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Greg,
>
> Can you please pull this into driver-core-next since the commit that
> causes this is only present in driver-core-next?
>
> -Saravana
>
> include/linux/acpi.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
> index 39263c6b52e1..2630c2e953f7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/acpi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline struct fwnode_handle *acpi_alloc_fwnode_static(void)
> if (!fwnode)
> return NULL;
>
> - fwnode->ops = &acpi_static_fwnode_ops;
> + fwnode_init(fwnode, &acpi_static_fwnode_ops);
>
> return fwnode;
> }
>