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From: eric.y.miao@gmail.com (Eric Miao)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: pxa: Fix pxa3xx-u2d crash when ULPI not used
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:43:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikRREGjQfiMc+ttypHmeBE00cXM1Fcmf0GvZXPV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C835655.1080103@compulab.co.il>

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Igor Grinberg <grinberg@compulab.co.il> wrote:
> ?On 09/05/10 11:25, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Dne Ne 5. z??? 2010 10:16:48 Igor Grinberg napsal(a):
>>> ?On 09/05/10 11:01, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> Dne Ne 5. z??? 2010 09:54:31 Igor Grinberg napsal(a):
>>>>> ?On 09/03/10 23:35, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>> In case the pxa3xx-u2d driver isn't used, probing of ohci-pxa27x will
>>>>>> cause an ugly kernel crash (NULL pointer dereference in
>>>>>> pxa3xx_u2d_start_hc(), because struct u2d is NULL and clk_enable() call
>>>>>> will crash the kernel, trying to access it).
>>>>> ohci code checks for pxa3xx cpu and only then runs start/stop hc.
>>>> Exactly ... and in case "struct pxa3xx_u2d_ulpi *u2d" is NULL, clk_enable
>>>> will crash the kernel.
>>>>
>>>>> pxa3xx_ulpi.c is compiled if CONFIG_PXA3xx is selected.
>>>>> The device <-> driver binding should not be a problem, so the
>>>>> pxa3xx_u2d_probe() will run.
>>>>> The only case, I see, when struct u2d does not exist is failure of the
>>>>> probe function. If this is the case, we are having an abnormal execution
>>>>> and if your patch is dealing with this issue, shouldn't you comment it
>>>>> as such?
>>>> Not at all ... if the pxa3xx-u2d driver isn't loaded at all, the function
>>>> (start/stop hc) is still called, but struct pxa3xx_u2d_ulpi *u2d is NULL.
>>>> In this case, if you call clk_enable(u2d->clk), you crash the kernel
>>>> (because u2d is NULL).
>>> How, can it happen, that "pxa3xx-u2d driver isn't loaded at all"?
>>> This can happen only if you rip out the device registration or hack a
>>> Makefile. I don't see any other way... is there?
>> If you don't call pxa3xx_set_u2d_info() ?
>
> Oh... right.
> I've added it this way, so boards can control u2d existence and forgot it is there...
> Buggy me... :(
>

Igor,

So do you this as a proper fix, or there is better way out?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-05 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03 20:35 [PATCH] ARM: pxa: Fix pxa3xx-u2d crash when ULPI not used Marek Vasut
2010-09-04  5:38 ` Eric Miao
2010-09-05  7:54 ` Igor Grinberg
2010-09-05  8:01   ` Marek Vasut
2010-09-05  8:16     ` Igor Grinberg
2010-09-05  8:25       ` Marek Vasut
2010-09-05  8:35         ` Igor Grinberg
2010-09-05 10:43           ` Eric Miao [this message]
2010-09-05 13:46             ` Igor Grinberg
2010-09-05 13:58               ` Eric Miao
2010-09-05 14:31                 ` Igor Grinberg
2010-09-05 19:23                   ` Marek Vasut

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