Re: [PATCH] clk: Skip clk provider registration when np is NULL

[Tudor.Ambarus]

On 4/23/21 10:12 PM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> commit 6579c8d97ad7 ("clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added")
> revealed that clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c driver calls
> devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(), with a NULL dev->of_node, which resulted in a
> NULL pointer dereference in of_clk_add_provider() when calling
s/of_clk_add_provider()/of_clk_add_hw_provider()
> fwnode_dev_initialized().
> 
> Returning 0 is reducing the if conditions in driver code and is being
> consistent with the CONFIG_OF=n inline stub that returns 0 when CONFIG_OF
> is disabled. The downside is that drivers will maybe register clkdev lookups
> when they don't need to and waste some memory.
> 
> Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 6579c8d97ad7 ("clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added")
> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This would be the second approach, where we don't return an error when
> one calls devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider with a NULL of_node, but instead
> we just return 0 and skip the logic in the core and the drivers.
> 
>  drivers/clk/clk.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index e2ec1b745243..5d10da3519ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -4540,6 +4540,9 @@ int of_clk_add_provider(struct device_node *np,
>  	struct of_clk_provider *cp;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!np)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	cp = kzalloc(sizeof(*cp), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!cp)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -4579,6 +4582,9 @@ int of_clk_add_hw_provider(struct device_node *np,
>  	struct of_clk_provider *cp;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!np)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	cp = kzalloc(sizeof(*cp), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!cp)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -4676,6 +4682,9 @@ void of_clk_del_provider(struct device_node *np)
>  {
>  	struct of_clk_provider *cp;
>  
> +	if (!np)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&of_clk_mutex);
>  	list_for_each_entry(cp, &of_clk_providers, link) {
>  		if (cp->node == np) {
>