[PATCH 1/2] drm/kmb: reset DSI host singleton state on teardown

From: Osama Abdelkader

Date: Mon Apr 20 2026 - 13:00:49 EST


Tear down and clear the global DSI host/device/bridge singleton state
when unregistering the host so probe retries and remove/reprobe cycles
start from a clean state.

Guard the clock-disable path in kmb_dsi_host_unregister() to avoid
dereferencing error pointers from early probe failure paths.
Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/kmb_dsi.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/kmb_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/kmb_dsi.c
index aeb2f9f98f23..500dc00ba6ae 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/kmb_dsi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/kmb_dsi.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@

#include <linux/clk.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/of_graph.h>
#include <linux/mfd/syscon.h>
@@ -182,8 +183,18 @@ static void kmb_dsi_clk_disable(struct kmb_dsi *kmb_dsi)

void kmb_dsi_host_unregister(struct kmb_dsi *kmb_dsi)
{
- kmb_dsi_clk_disable(kmb_dsi);
- mipi_dsi_host_unregister(kmb_dsi->host);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(kmb_dsi))
+ kmb_dsi_clk_disable(kmb_dsi);
+
+ if (dsi_host) {
+ mipi_dsi_host_unregister(dsi_host);
+ kfree(dsi_host);
+ dsi_host = NULL;
+ }
+
+ kfree(dsi_device);
+ dsi_device = NULL;
+ adv_bridge = NULL;
}

/*
@@ -217,6 +228,8 @@ static const struct mipi_dsi_host_ops kmb_dsi_host_ops = {
int kmb_dsi_host_bridge_init(struct device *dev)
{
struct device_node *encoder_node, *dsi_out;
+ bool host_registered = false;
+ int ret;

/* Create and register MIPI DSI host */
if (!dsi_host) {
@@ -230,25 +243,38 @@ int kmb_dsi_host_bridge_init(struct device *dev)
dsi_device = kzalloc_obj(*dsi_device);
if (!dsi_device) {
kfree(dsi_host);
+ dsi_host = NULL;
return -ENOMEM;
}
}

dsi_host->dev = dev;
- mipi_dsi_host_register(dsi_host);
+ ret = mipi_dsi_host_register(dsi_host);
+ if (ret) {
+ DRM_ERROR("failed to register dsi host\n");
+ kfree(dsi_device);
+ dsi_device = NULL;
+ kfree(dsi_host);
+ dsi_host = NULL;
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ host_registered = true;
}

/* Find ADV7535 node and initialize it */
dsi_out = of_graph_get_endpoint_by_regs(dev->of_node, 0, 1);
if (!dsi_out) {
DRM_ERROR("Failed to get dsi_out node info from DT\n");
- return -EINVAL;
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_unregister_host;
}
encoder_node = of_graph_get_remote_port_parent(dsi_out);
if (!encoder_node) {
of_node_put(dsi_out);
DRM_ERROR("Failed to get bridge info from DT\n");
- return -EINVAL;
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_unregister_host;
}
/* Locate drm bridge from the hdmi encoder DT node */
adv_bridge = of_drm_find_bridge(encoder_node);
@@ -256,10 +282,16 @@ int kmb_dsi_host_bridge_init(struct device *dev)
of_node_put(encoder_node);
if (!adv_bridge) {
DRM_DEBUG("Wait for external bridge driver DT\n");
- return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+ ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
+ goto err_unregister_host;
}

return 0;
+
+err_unregister_host:
+ if (host_registered)
+ kmb_dsi_host_unregister(NULL);
+ return ret;
}

static u32 mipi_get_datatype_params(u32 data_type, u32 data_mode,
--
2.43.0