Re: [PATCH v2] clk: Skip clk provider registration when np is NULL

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 11 2021 - 03:11:07 EST


On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:36:45PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 09:56:18AM +0300, 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_hw_provider() when calling
> > 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")
> > Fixes: 3c9ea42802a1 ("clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added/removed")
> > Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Now applied to my tree, thanks and sorry for the delay, I thought this
was going through the clk tree.

greg k-h