[PATCH] fpga: bridge: properly initialize bridge device before populating children

From: alexis . lothore
Date: Tue Apr 04 2023 - 09:34:39 EST


From: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The current code path can lead to warnings because of uninitialized device,
which contains, as a consequence, uninitialized kobject. The uninitialized
device is passed to of_platform_populate, which will at some point, while
creating child device, try to get a reference on uninitialized parent,
resulting in the following warning:

kobject: '(null)' ((ptrval)): is not initialized, yet kobject_get() is
being called.

The warning is observed after migrating a kernel 5.10.x to 6.1.x.
Reverting commit 0d70af3c2530 ("fpga: bridge: Use standard dev_release for
class driver") seems to remove the warning.
This commit aggregates device_initialize() and device_add() into
device_register() but this new call is done AFTER of_platform_populate

Fixes: 0d70af3c2530 ("fpga: bridge: Use standard dev_release for class driver")
Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c b/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c
index 727704431f61..13918c8c839e 100644
--- a/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c
+++ b/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c
@@ -360,7 +360,6 @@ fpga_bridge_register(struct device *parent, const char *name,
bridge->dev.parent = parent;
bridge->dev.of_node = parent->of_node;
bridge->dev.id = id;
- of_platform_populate(bridge->dev.of_node, NULL, NULL, &bridge->dev);

ret = dev_set_name(&bridge->dev, "br%d", id);
if (ret)
@@ -372,6 +371,8 @@ fpga_bridge_register(struct device *parent, const char *name,
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

+ of_platform_populate(bridge->dev.of_node, NULL, NULL, &bridge->dev);
+
return bridge;

error_device:
--
2.40.0