Re: [PATCH v1 RESEND] spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Fix kernel panic on rmmod

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Fri Jan 26 2024 - 04:14:48 EST


On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 11:41:53AM +0530, Vamshi Gajjela wrote:
> Ensure consistency in spmi_controller pointers between
> spmi_controller_remove/put and driver spmi_del_controller functions.
> The former requires a pointer to struct spmi_controller, while the
> latter passes a pointer of struct spmi_controller_dev, leading to a
> "Null pointer exception".
>
> 'nr' member of struct spmi_controller, which serves as an identifier
> for the controller/bus. This value is assigned a dynamic ID in
> spmi_controller_alloc, and overriding it from the driver results in an
> ida_free error "ida_free called for id=xx which is not allocated".

No Fixes tag?

> Signed-off-by: Vamshi Gajjela <vamshigajjela@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/spmi/hisi-spmi-controller.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spmi/hisi-spmi-controller.c b/drivers/spmi/hisi-spmi-controller.c
> index 9cbd473487cb..af51ffe24072 100644
> --- a/drivers/spmi/hisi-spmi-controller.c
> +++ b/drivers/spmi/hisi-spmi-controller.c
> @@ -303,7 +303,6 @@ static int spmi_controller_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> spin_lock_init(&spmi_controller->lock);
>
> - ctrl->nr = spmi_controller->channel;
> ctrl->dev.parent = pdev->dev.parent;
> ctrl->dev.of_node = of_node_get(pdev->dev.of_node);
>
> @@ -326,7 +325,8 @@ static int spmi_controller_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> static void spmi_del_controller(struct platform_device *pdev)

This function does not exist in mainline so presumably this is some bug
you've introduced in your downstream driver that you're trying to fix.

So this patch looks all bogus.

> {
> - struct spmi_controller *ctrl = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + struct spmi_controller_dev *spmi_controller = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + struct spmi_controller *ctrl = spmi_controller->controller;
>
> spmi_controller_remove(ctrl);
> spmi_controller_put(ctrl);

Johan