Re: v5.13-rcX regression - NULL pointer dereference - MFD and software node API

[Dominik Brodowski]

Am Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 02:19:44PM +0300 schrieb Andy Shevchenko:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:36 AM Dominik Brodowski
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Over a month ago, Andy Shevchenko reported and fixed a NULL pointer
> > dereference issue introduced by commit
> >         42e59982917a ("mfd: core: Add support for software nodes")
> > in v5.13-rc1:
> >         https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210510141552.57045-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > A bisect shows that it is indeed commit 42e59982917a which causes boot to
> > fail due to a NULL pointer dereference on my work laptop,
> 
> Can you, please, be more specific? E.g. where may I find the ACPI dump
> of your laptop, along with other information?
> What you may prepare is (all run under root user)
> 1. `acpidump -o laptop-$MODEL.dat` (the *.dat file)
> 2. `grep -H 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/*/status`
> 3. `dmesg`
> 4. `cat /proc/iomem /proc/ioport`
> 5. `lspci -nk -vv`
> 
> (#2 and #3 are interesting to have in working and non-working cases)
> 
> Perhaps a bug on the kernel bugzilla would be a good container for all these.
> 
> Also it's not clear what exactly an Oops you have (I don't believe
> it's the same).

Thanks for taking a look at this issue. As it's actually a panic during
boot which triggers before initramfs is ready, I can only provide the data
for the "working case", i.e. with the patch causing the regression already
reverted:

	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213511

With commit 42e59982917a reverted, the system works just fine.

> > In my opinion, it is unfortunate that although it has been known for over a
> > month that commit 42e59982917a is broken, the bugfix (though probably not
> > far-reaching enough) has not yet progressed upstream.
> 
> Which sounds like a narrow scope of the issue and supports the theory
> of buggy tables. It may also be possible that some driver

... still, it's a regression, with a clear "git bisect" result :-(

Thanks,
	Dominik