Re: [PATCH] clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added

[Nicolas Saenz Julienne]

On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 14:31 +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 10.02.2021 12:44, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> > This is a follow-up for:
> > commit 3c9ea42802a1 ("clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added/removed")
> > 
> > The above commit updated the deprecated of_clk_add_provider(),
> > but missed to update the preferred of_clk_add_hw_provider().
> > Update it now.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch, which landed in linux-next as commit 6579c8d97ad7 ("clk: 
> Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added") causes the following 
> NULL pointer dereference on Raspberry Pi 3b+ boards:
> 
> --->8---
> 
> raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 
> 2020-01-06T13:05:25
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 
> 0000000000000050
> Mem abort info:
>    ESR = 0x96000004
>    EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
>    SET = 0, FnV = 0
>    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> Data abort info:
>    ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
>    CM = 0, WnR = 0
> [0000000000000050] user address but active_mm is swapper
> Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc4+ #2764
> Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (DT)
> Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func
> pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> pc : of_clk_add_hw_provider+0xac/0xe8
> lr : of_clk_add_hw_provider+0x94/0xe8
> sp : ffff8000130936b0
> x29: ffff8000130936b0 x28: ffff800012494e04
> x27: ffff00003b18cb05 x26: ffff00003aa5c010
> x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
> x23: ffff00003aa1e380 x22: ffff8000106830d0
> x21: ffff80001233f180 x20: 0000000000000018
> x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffff8000124d38b0
> x17: 0000000000000013 x16: 0000000000000014
> x15: ffff8000125758b0 x14: 00000000000184e0
> x13: 000000000000292e x12: ffff80001258dd98
> x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0101010101010101
> x9 : ffff80001233f288 x8 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f
> x7 : fefefefeff6c626f x6 : 5d636d8080808080
> x5 : 00000000006d635d x4 : 0000000000000000
> x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 540eb5edae191600
> x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
> Call trace:
>   of_clk_add_hw_provider+0xac/0xe8
>   devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider+0x5c/0xb8
>   raspberrypi_clk_probe+0x110/0x210
>   platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
>   really_probe+0x108/0x3c0
>   driver_probe_device+0x60/0xc0
>   __device_attach_driver+0x9c/0xd0
>   bus_for_each_drv+0x70/0xc8
>   __device_attach+0xec/0x150
>   device_initial_probe+0x10/0x18
>   bus_probe_device+0x94/0xa0
>   device_add+0x47c/0x780
>   platform_device_add+0x110/0x248
>   platform_device_register_full+0x120/0x150
>   rpi_firmware_probe+0x158/0x1f8
>   platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
>   really_probe+0x108/0x3c0
>   driver_probe_device+0x60/0xc0
>   __device_attach_driver+0x9c/0xd0
>   bus_for_each_drv+0x70/0xc8
>   __device_attach+0xec/0x150
>   device_initial_probe+0x10/0x18
>   bus_probe_device+0x94/0xa0
>   deferred_probe_work_func+0x70/0xa8
>   process_one_work+0x2a8/0x718
>   worker_thread+0x48/0x460
>   kthread+0x134/0x160
>   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> Code: b1006294 540000c0 b140069f 54000088 (3940e280)
> ---[ end trace 7ead5ec2f0c51cfe ]---
> 
> This patch mainly revealed that clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c driver calls 
> devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(), with a device pointer, which has a NULL 
> dev->of_node. I'm not sure if adding a check for a NULL np in 
> of_clk_add_hw_provider() is a right fix, though.

I believe the right fix is not to call 'devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider()' if
'pdev->dev.of_node == NULL'. In such case, which is RPi3's, only the CPU clock
is used, and it's defined and queried later through
devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev().

@Marek, I don't mind taking care of it if it's OK with you.

Regards,
Nicolas

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