Re: [PATCH 2/3] gpio: fix null pointer exception when there is no oftree

[Alexander Kurz <akurz@blala.de>]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Lucas Stach wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 05.07.2017, 20:33 +0200 schrieb Sam Ravnborg:
> > From d10f426e1b8cec7de257dabf59e7fe53a591b3c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sam Ravnborg <srn@skov.dk>
> > Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:07:41 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gpio: fix null pointer exception when there is no oftree
> > 
> > In a system with oftree support enabled but with no oftree the
> > of_gpiochip_scan_hogs() would fail due to device_node equals NULL.
> > 
> > Check device_node and return with 0 in this situation, as this
> > mirrors what would have happened before we added support for gpio-hogs.
> > 
> > Use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OFDEVICE) to teach compiler to leave
> > out the of_* specific functions if not needed.
> > 
> > Fixes: 37e6bee7 ("gpiolib: Add support for GPIO "hog" nodes")
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kurz <akurz@blala.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 8 +++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > index a3e17ada0..2bd8ef2a8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > @@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ static int of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(struct gpio_chip *chip)
> >  	struct device_node *np;
> >  	int ret, i;
> >  
> > +	if (!chip->dev->device_node)
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> >  	for_each_available_child_of_node(chip->dev->device_node, np) {
> >  		if (!of_property_read_bool(np, "gpio-hog"))
> >  			continue;
> > @@ -416,7 +419,10 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip)
> >  	for (i = chip->base; i < chip->base + chip->ngpio; i++)
> >  		gpio_desc[i].chip = chip;
> >  
> > -	return of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(chip);
> > +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OFDEVICE))
> > +		return of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(chip);
> > +	else
> > +		return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> >  void gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *chip)
> 
> I think this can be simplified to:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index a3e17ada0d39..1a373ef149a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ static int of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(struct gpio_chip
> *chip)
>         struct device_node *np;
>         int ret, i;
> 
> +       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OFDEVICE) || !chip->dev->device_node)
> +               return 0;
> +
>         for_each_available_child_of_node(chip->dev->device_node, np) {
>                 if (!of_property_read_bool(np, "gpio-hog"))
>                         continue;
> 
> The optimizer should be able to work this out. Can you check that this
> works for you? No need to resend, if it works I'll just commit this.
This works perfecty fine with gcc-5.2 and gcc-4.6
(although gcc-4.6 compatibilty broke with commit 4ef026c3048)

Thanks, Alexander

> 
> Regards,
> Lucas
> 

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