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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch] gpiolib: fix oops in gpio_get_value_cansleep()
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:45:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810160845.22281.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)

From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>

We can get the following oops from gpio_get_value_cansleep()
when a GPIO controller doesn't provide a get() callback:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request for instruction fetch
 Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000
 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
 [...]
 NIP [00000000] 0x0
 LR [c0182fb0] gpio_get_value_cansleep+0x40/0x50
 Call Trace:
 [c7b79e80] [c0183f28] gpio_value_show+0x5c/0x94
 [c7b79ea0] [c01a584c] dev_attr_show+0x30/0x7c
 [c7b79eb0] [c00d6b48] fill_read_buffer+0x68/0xe0
 [c7b79ed0] [c00d6c54] sysfs_read_file+0x94/0xbc
 [c7b79ef0] [c008f24c] vfs_read+0xb4/0x16c
 [c7b79f10] [c008f580] sys_read+0x4c/0x90
 [c7b79f40] [c0013a14] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38

It's OK to request the value of *any* GPIO; most GPIOs are
bidirectional, so configuring them as outputs just enables an
output driver and doesn't disable the input logic.

So the problem is that gpio_get_value_cansleep() isn't making
the same sanity check that gpio_get_value() does:  making sure
this GPIO isn't one of the atypical "no input logic" cases.

Reported-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ int gpio_get_value_cansleep(unsigned gpi
 
 	might_sleep_if(extra_checks);
 	chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio);
-	return chip->get(chip, gpio - chip->base);
+	return chip->get ? chip->get(chip, gpio - chip->base) : 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_get_value_cansleep);
 

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-16 15:45 David Brownell [this message]
2008-10-16 16:43 ` [patch] gpiolib: fix oops in gpio_get_value_cansleep() Anton Vorontsov
2008-10-16 17:06   ` David Brownell
2008-10-16 17:15     ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-10-16 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-17  0:44   ` David Brownell
2008-10-17  0:54     ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-17  2:45       ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-10-17  3:00         ` David Brownell

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