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pinctrl: core: Warn about NULL gpio_chip in pinctrl_ready_for_gpio_range()

Message ID 1441301670-6498-1-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com
State New
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Commit Message

Tony Lindgren Sept. 3, 2015, 5:34 p.m. UTC
If the gpio driver is confused about the numbers for gpio-ranges,
pinctrl_ready_for_gpio_range() may get called with invalid GPIO
causing a NULL pointer exception. Let's instead provide a warning
that allows fixing the problem and return with error.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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 drivers/pinctrl/core.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Linus Walleij Sept. 8, 2015, 2:11 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:

> If the gpio driver is confused about the numbers for gpio-ranges,
> pinctrl_ready_for_gpio_range() may get called with invalid GPIO
> causing a NULL pointer exception. Let's instead provide a warning
> that allows fixing the problem and return with error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

Patch applied for fixes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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Patch

--- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
@@ -349,6 +349,9 @@  static bool pinctrl_ready_for_gpio_range(unsigned gpio)
 	struct pinctrl_gpio_range *range = NULL;
 	struct gpio_chip *chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio);
 
+	if (WARN(!chip, "no gpio_chip for gpio%i?", gpio))
+		return false;
+
 	mutex_lock(&pinctrldev_list_mutex);
 
 	/* Loop over the pin controllers */