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From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
To: <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Markus Burri <markus.burri@mt.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>,
	Alexandru Tachici <alexandru.tachici@analog.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>, <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] iio: adc: ad7192: store indio_dev into spi driver data
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:45:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230612124548.00007778@Huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZIbwUKxlhWQZYnPz@surfacebook>

On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:15:44 +0300
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Markus Burri kirjoitti:
> > After calibration the indio_dev is used to get channel information.
> > Since the pointer is not stored into spi driver data, there is a kernel
> > null pointer dereference.
> > Store the indio_dev into spi driver data to fix this.  
> 
> This definitely deserves the Fixes tag. Can you dig the history to find the
> culprit one?

Good catch, but see

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530075311.400686-2-fl.scratchpad@gmail.com/

Which I think is a nicer fix for the same issue.

I sent a pull request for that fix yesterday, but given we are late in the cycle
it might go in during the merge window then get backported to stable kernels
after that.

> 
> > Add error check and slightly extend the debug messages.  
> 
> I'm not sure this will belong to the same change, so I would split this out to
> a separate one.

Definitely.  Multiple issues so multiple patches.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> 


      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-12 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-12  8:08 [PATCH v1] iio: adc: ad7192: store indio_dev into spi driver data Markus Burri
2023-06-12 10:15 ` andy.shevchenko
2023-06-12 11:45   ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]

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