Re: [PATCH] spi/pxa2xx: Clear cur_chip pointer before starting next message

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Tue Dec 23 2014 - 08:49:33 EST


On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 11:12:46AM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Once the current message is finished, the driver notifies SPI core about
> this by calling spi_finalize_current_message(). This function queues next
> message to be transferred. If there are more messages in the queue, it is
> possible that the driver is asked to transfer the next message at this
> point.
>
> When spi_finalize_current_message() returns the driver clears the
> drv_data->cur_chip pointer to NULL. The problem is that if the driver
> already started the next message clearing drv_data->cur_chip will cause
> NULL pointer dereference which crashes the kernel like:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000048
> IP: [<ffffffffa0022bc8>] cs_deassert+0x18/0x70 [spi_pxa2xx_platform]
> PGD 78bb8067 PUD 37712067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 11 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Tainted: G O 3.18.0-rc4-mjo #5
> Hardware name: Intel Corp. VALLEYVIEW B3 PLATFORM/NOTEBOOK, BIOS MNW2CRB1.X64.0071.R30.1408131301 08/13/2014
> task: ffff880077f9f290 ti: ffff88007a820000 task.ti: ffff88007a820000
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0022bc8>] [<ffffffffa0022bc8>] cs_deassert+0x18/0x70 [spi_pxa2xx_platform]
> RSP: 0018:ffff88007a823d08 EFLAGS: 00010202
> RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: ffff8800379a4430 RCX: 0000000000000026
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000246 RDI: ffff8800379a4430
> RBP: ffff88007a823d18 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 000000007a9bc65a
> R10: 000000000000028f R11: 0000000000000005 R12: ffff880070123e98
> R13: ffff880070123de8 R14: 0000000000000100 R15: ffffc90004888000
> FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880079a80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 0000000000000048 CR3: 000000007029b000 CR4: 00000000001007e0
> Stack:
> ffff88007a823d58 ffff8800379a4430 ffff88007a823d48 ffffffffa0022c89
> 0000000000000000 ffff8800379a4430 0000000000000000 0000000000000006
> ffff88007a823da8 ffffffffa0023be0 ffff88007a823dd8 ffffffff81076204
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffffa0022c89>] giveback+0x69/0xa0 [spi_pxa2xx_platform]
> [<ffffffffa0023be0>] pump_transfers+0x710/0x740 [spi_pxa2xx_platform]
> [<ffffffff81076204>] ? pick_next_task_fair+0x744/0x830
> [<ffffffff81049679>] tasklet_action+0xa9/0xe0
> [<ffffffff81049a0e>] __do_softirq+0xee/0x280
> [<ffffffff81049bc0>] run_ksoftirqd+0x20/0x40
> [<ffffffff810646df>] smpboot_thread_fn+0xff/0x1b0
> [<ffffffff810645e0>] ? SyS_setgroups+0x150/0x150
> [<ffffffff81060f9d>] kthread+0xcd/0xf0
> [<ffffffff81060ed0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
> [<ffffffff8187a82c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
>
> Fix this by clearing drv_data->cur_chip before we call spi_finalize_current_message().
>
> Reported-by: Martin Oldfield <m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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