Re: [PATCH v4] rtc: ac100: Fix ac100 determine rate bug

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Tue Feb 27 2018 - 04:09:24 EST


On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:19:01PM +0100, Philipp Rossak wrote:
> This patch fixes a bug, that prevents the Allwinner A83T and the A80
> from a successful boot.
>
> The bug is there since v4.16-rc1 and appeared after the clk branch was
> merged.
>
> You can find the shortend trace below:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000000
> pgd = (ptrval)
> [00000000] *pgd=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 49 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.15.0-10190-gb89e32ccd1be #2
> Hardware name: Allwinner sun8i Family
> Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func
> PC is at clk_hw_get_rate+0x0/0x34
> LR is at ac100_clkout_determine_rate+0x48/0x19c
>
> [ ... ]
>
> (clk_hw_get_rate) from (ac100_clkout_determine_rate+0x48/0x19c)
> (ac100_clkout_determine_rate) from (clk_core_set_rate_nolock+0x3c/0x1a0)
> (clk_core_set_rate_nolock) from (clk_set_rate+0x30/0x88)
> (clk_set_rate) from (of_clk_set_defaults+0x200/0x364)
> (of_clk_set_defaults) from (platform_drv_probe+0x18/0xb0)
>
> To fix that bug, we first check if the return of the
> clk_hw_get_parent_by_index is non zero. If it is zero we skip that
> clock parent.
>
> The BUG report could be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/10/198
>
> Fixes: 04940631b8d2 ("rtc: ac100: Add clk output support")
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Rossak <embed3d@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
Maxime

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