Re: [PATCH] clk: Warn and add workaround on misuse of .parent_data with .name only

From: Christian Marangi
Date: Fri Nov 25 2022 - 18:06:15 EST


On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:49:18PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> By a simple mistake in a .parent_names to .parent_data conversion it was
> found that clk core assume fw_name is always provided with a parent_data
> struct for each parent and never fallback to .name to get parent name even
> if declared.
>
> This is caused by clk_core_get that only checks for parent .fw_name and
> doesn't handle .name.
>
> While it's sane to request the dev to correctly do the conversion and
> add both .fw_name and .name in a parent_data struct, it's not sane to
> silently drop parents without a warning.
>
> Fix this in 2 ways. Add a kernel warning when a wrong implementation is
> used and copy .name in .fw_name in parent map populate function to
> handle clk problems and malfunctions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>

Friendly bump for this?

> ---
> drivers/clk/clk.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index 57b83665e5c3..dccd4ea6f692 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -4015,10 +4015,21 @@ static int clk_core_populate_parent_map(struct clk_core *core,
> ret = clk_cpy_name(&parent->name, parent_names[i],
> true);
> } else if (parent_data) {
> + const char *parent_name;
> +
> parent->hw = parent_data[i].hw;
> parent->index = parent_data[i].index;
> + parent_name = parent_data[i].fw_name;
> +
> + if (!parent_name && parent_data[i].name) {
> + WARN(1, "Empty .fw_name with .name in %s's .parent_data. Using .name for .fw_name declaration.\n",
> + core->name);
> + parent_name = parent_data[i].name;
> + }
> +
> ret = clk_cpy_name(&parent->fw_name,
> - parent_data[i].fw_name, false);
> + parent_name, false);
> +
> if (!ret)
> ret = clk_cpy_name(&parent->name,
> parent_data[i].name,
> --
> 2.37.2
>

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