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SubjectRe: [PATCH] nvmem: Don't let a NULL cell_id for nvmem_cell_get() crash us
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On 15/05/18 22:16, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> In commit ca04d9d3e1b1 ("phy: qcom-qusb2: New driver for QUSB2 PHY on
> Qcom chips") you can see a call like:
>
> devm_nvmem_cell_get(dev, NULL);
>
> Note that the cell ID passed to the function is NULL. This is because
> the qcom-qusb2 driver is expected to work only on systems where the
> PHY node is hooked up via device-tree and is nameless.
>
> This works OK for the most part. The first thing nvmem_cell_get()
> does is to call of_nvmem_cell_get() and there it's documented that a
> NULL name is fine. The problem happens when the call to
> of_nvmem_cell_get() returns -EINVAL. In such a case we'll fall back
> to nvmem_cell_get_from_list() and eventually might (if nvmem_cells
> isn't an empty list) crash with something that looks like:
>
> strcmp
> nvmem_find_cell
> __nvmem_device_get
> nvmem_cell_get_from_list
> nvmem_cell_get
> devm_nvmem_cell_get
> qusb2_phy_probe
>
> There are several different ways we could fix this problem:
>
> One could argue that perhaps the qcom-qusb2 driver should be changed
> to use of_nvmem_cell_get() which is allowed to have a NULL name. In
> that case, we'd need to add a patche to introduce
> devm_of_nvmem_cell_get() since the qcom-qusb2 driver is using devm
> managed resources.
>
> One could also argue that perhaps we could just add a name to
> qcom-qusb2. That would be OK but I believe it effectively changes the
> device tree bindings, so maybe it's a no-go.
>
> In this patch I have chosen to fix the problem by simply not crashing
> when a NULL cell_id is passed to nvmem_cell_get().
>
> NOTE: that for the qcom-qusb2 driver the "nvmem-cells" property is
> defined to be optional and thus it's expected to be a common case that
> we would hit this crash and this is more than just a theoretical fix.
>
> Fixes: ca04d9d3e1b1 ("phy: qcom-qusb2: New driver for QUSB2 PHY on Qcom chips")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
>
> drivers/nvmem/core.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Looks good to me,
Kishon if you want to queue this one from your tree, you can add my

Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>

If not I can send this via Greg's Char-misc tree.

thanks,
srini

>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> index b5b0cdc21d01..514d1dfc5630 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> @@ -936,6 +936,10 @@ struct nvmem_cell *nvmem_cell_get(struct device *dev, const char *cell_id)
> return cell;
> }
>
> + /* NULL cell_id only allowed for device tree; invalid otherwise */
> + if (!cell_id)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
> return nvmem_cell_get_from_list(cell_id);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmem_cell_get);
>

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