Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] i2c: i2c-core-of: Fix corner case of finding adapter by node

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 2:59 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node() could end up failing to find an
> adapter in certain conditions. Specifically it's possible that
> of_dev_or_parent_node_match() could end up finding an I2C client in
> the list and cause bus_find_device() to stop early even though an I2C
> adapter was present later in the list.
>
> Let's move the i2c_verify_adapter() into the predicate function to
> prevent this. Now we'll properly skip over the I2C client and be able
> to find the I2C adapter.
>
> This issue has always been a potential problem if a single device tree
> node could represent both an I2C client and an adapter. I believe this
> is a sane thing to do if, for instance, an I2C-connected DP bridge
> chip is present. The bridge chip is an I2C client but it can also
> provide an I2C adapter (DDC tunneled over AUX channel). We don't want
> to have to create a sub-node just so a panel can link to it with the
> "ddc-i2c-bus" property.
>
> I believe that this problem got worse, however, with commit
> e814e688413a ("i2c: of: Try to find an I2C adapter matching the
> parent"). Starting at that commit it would be even easier to
> accidentally miss finding the adapter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Later patches in this series won't work right without this one, but
> they won't crash. If we can't find the i2c bus we'll just fall back to
> the hardcoded panel modes which, at least today, all panels have.
>
> I'll also note that part of me wonders if we should actually fix this
> further to run two passes through everything: first look to see if we
> find an exact match and only look at the parent pointer if there is no
> match. I don't currently have a need for that and it's a slightly
> bigger change, but it seems conceivable that it could affect someone?
>
> (no changes since v1)
>
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

FYI that I've just posted v7 of this series and I've dropped
${SUBJECT} patch from my series.

I think that ${SUBJECT} patch is still correct and could be useful to
land, but it's no longer needed by my series since I'm getting access
to the DDC bus in a different way. If this patch needs to be spun,
please let me know. ...or, feel free to land it! :-)

-Doug