From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
Cc: "Marc Kleine-Budde" <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
linux-can@vger.kernel.org,
"Wolfgang Grandegger" <wg@grandegger.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Liam Girdwood" <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
"Mark Brown" <broonie@kernel.org>,
"Vincent Mailhol" <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>,
"Oliver Hartkopp" <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
"Timo Schlüßler" <schluessler@krause.de>,
"Tim Harvey" <tharvey@gateworks.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Null pointer dereference in mcp251x driver when resuming from sleep
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 16:54:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJAAn+H9nQl425QN@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YI//GqCv0nkvtQ54@smile.fi.intel.com>
On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 04:48:10PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 04:44:24PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 03:11:40PM +0200, Frieder Schrempf wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > with kernel 5.10.x and 5.12.x I'm getting a null pointer dereference
> > > exception from the mcp251x driver when I resume from sleep (see trace
> > > below).
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell this was working fine with 5.4. As I currently don't
> > > have the time to do further debugging/bisecting, for now I want to at least
> > > report this here.
> > >
> > > Maybe there is someone around who could already give a wild guess for what
> > > might cause this just by looking at the trace/code!?
> >
> > Does revert of c7299fea6769 ("spi: Fix spi device unregister flow") help?
>
> Other than that, bisecting will take not more than 3-4 iterations only:
> % git log --oneline v5.4..v5.10.34 -- drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c
> 3292c4fc9ce2 can: mcp251x: fix support for half duplex SPI host controllers
> e0e25001d088 can: mcp251x: add support for half duplex controllers
> 74fa565b63dc can: mcp251x: Use readx_poll_timeout() helper
> 2d52dabbef60 can: mcp251x: add GPIO support
> cfc24a0aa7a1 can: mcp251x: sort include files alphabetically
> df561f6688fe treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword
> 8ce8c0abcba3 can: mcp251x: only reset hardware as required
And only smoking gun by analyzing the code is the above. So, for the first I
would simply check before that commit and immediately after (15-30 minutes of
work). (I would do it myself if I had a hardware at hand...)
> 877a902103fd can: mcp251x: add mcp251x_write_2regs() and make use of it
> 50ec88120ea1 can: mcp251x: get rid of legacy platform data
> 14684b93019a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-03 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-03 13:11 Null pointer dereference in mcp251x driver when resuming from sleep Frieder Schrempf
2021-05-03 13:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-03 13:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-03 13:54 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-05-04 13:54 ` Frieder Schrempf
2021-05-04 14:19 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-03 13:49 ` Frieder Schrempf
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