Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: cadence: Store the core controller in platform drvdata

From: Bjorn Helgaas

Date: Wed Oct 14 2026 - 15:06:20 EST


On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 04:28:26PM +0800, Linmao Li wrote:
> cdns_plat_pcie_probe() stores a struct cdns_plat_pcie pointer with
> platform_set_drvdata(). cdns_plat_pcie_shutdown() and the callbacks in
> cdns_pcie_pm_ops retrieve the same pointer with dev_get_drvdata() and
> use it as a struct cdns_pcie pointer. This makes them read phy_count
> and phy beyond the wrapper.
>
> struct cdns_plat_pcie only contains a pointer to struct cdns_pcie. Drop
> the redundant wrapper and store the struct cdns_pcie pointer directly.
>
> Fixes: bd22885aa188 ("PCI: cadence: Refactor driver to use as a core library")
> Suggested-by: Aksh Garg <a-garg7@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linmao Li <lilinmao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Wow, nice find! Hard to believe this has been broken since 2019
(v5.5) and we didn't notice.

I added a stable tag.

> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the redundant struct cdns_plat_pcie wrapper (Aksh Garg).
> ---
> .../controller/cadence/pcie-cadence-plat.c | 27 ++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence-plat.c b/drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence-plat.c
> index 13edc6be21f5..4a24302cc5b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence-plat.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence-plat.c
> @@ -14,14 +14,6 @@
>
> #define CDNS_PLAT_CPU_TO_BUS_ADDR 0x0FFFFFFF
>
> -/**
> - * struct cdns_plat_pcie - private data for this PCIe platform driver
> - * @pcie: Cadence PCIe controller
> - */
> -struct cdns_plat_pcie {
> - struct cdns_pcie *pcie;
> -};
> -
> static const struct of_device_id cdns_plat_pcie_of_match[];
>
> static u64 cdns_plat_cpu_addr_fixup(struct cdns_pcie *pcie, u64 cpu_addr)
> @@ -36,9 +28,9 @@ static const struct cdns_pcie_ops cdns_plat_ops = {
> static int cdns_plat_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> const struct cdns_plat_pcie_of_data *data;
> - struct cdns_plat_pcie *cdns_plat_pcie;
> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> struct pci_host_bridge *bridge;
> + struct cdns_pcie *pcie;
> struct cdns_pcie_ep *ep;
> struct cdns_pcie_rc *rc;
> bool is_rc;
> @@ -51,11 +43,6 @@ static int cdns_plat_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> is_rc = data->is_rc;
>
> pr_debug(" Started %s with is_rc: %d\n", __func__, is_rc);
> - cdns_plat_pcie = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*cdns_plat_pcie), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!cdns_plat_pcie)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, cdns_plat_pcie);
> if (is_rc) {
> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PCIE_CADENCE_PLAT_HOST))
> return -ENODEV;
> @@ -67,9 +54,9 @@ static int cdns_plat_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> rc = pci_host_bridge_priv(bridge);
> rc->pcie.dev = dev;
> rc->pcie.ops = &cdns_plat_ops;
> - cdns_plat_pcie->pcie = &rc->pcie;
> + pcie = &rc->pcie;
>
> - ret = cdns_pcie_init_phy(dev, cdns_plat_pcie->pcie);
> + ret = cdns_pcie_init_phy(dev, pcie);
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(dev, "failed to init phy\n");
> return ret;
> @@ -94,9 +81,9 @@ static int cdns_plat_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> ep->pcie.dev = dev;
> ep->pcie.ops = &cdns_plat_ops;
> - cdns_plat_pcie->pcie = &ep->pcie;
> + pcie = &ep->pcie;
>
> - ret = cdns_pcie_init_phy(dev, cdns_plat_pcie->pcie);
> + ret = cdns_pcie_init_phy(dev, pcie);
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(dev, "failed to init phy\n");
> return ret;
> @@ -114,13 +101,15 @@ static int cdns_plat_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> goto err_init;
> }
>
> + platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pcie);
> +
> return 0;
>
> err_init:
> err_get_sync:
> pm_runtime_put_sync(dev);
> pm_runtime_disable(dev);
> - cdns_pcie_disable_phy(cdns_plat_pcie->pcie);
> + cdns_pcie_disable_phy(pcie);
>
> return ret;
> }
>
> base-commit: 9a9d18547ddc97a73d5d90cff4d5aef90bd8c15d
> --
> 2.25.1
>