Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad7192: fix null de-ref crash during probe

Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad7192: fix null de-ref crash during probe

[Markus Elfring]

> After that patch 'spi_get_device_id(spi)' returns NULL, so this crashes
> during probe with null de-ref.

How do you think about to use the term “null pointer dereference”
in the commit message?


> Fixes 66614ab2be38: ("staging: iio: adc: ad7192: removed spi_device_id")

Please correct this tag.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=7e63420847ae5f1036e4f7c42f0b3282e73efbc2#n183

Why was a colon misplaced here?

Regards,
Markus

Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad7192: fix null de-ref crash during probe

[Ardelean, Alexandru]

On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 21:46 +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > After that patch 'spi_get_device_id(spi)' returns NULL, so this crashes
> > during probe with null de-ref.
> 
> How do you think about to use the term “null pointer dereference”
> in the commit message?

depends how long the commit title with be
will take a look

> 
> 
> > Fixes 66614ab2be38: ("staging: iio: adc: ad7192: removed spi_device_id")
> 
> Please correct this tag.
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=7e63420847ae5f1036e4f7c42f0b3282e73efbc2*n183__;Iw!!A3Ni8CS0y2Y!uk9bOaD_449N0PxwtQ_WikWYY5KnpykeZTp-rbrRTju7FZM6fPd48zCD1pe7rTSYypKYkg$ 
> 
> Why was a colon misplaced here?

will fix
thanks

> 
> Regards,
> Markus

[PATCH] iio: adc: ad7192: fix null de-ref crash during probe

[Alexandru Ardelean]

When the 'spi_device_id' table was removed, it omitted to cleanup/fix the
assignment:
  'indio_dev->name = spi_get_device_id(spi)->name;'

After that patch 'spi_get_device_id(spi)' returns NULL, so this crashes
during probe with null de-ref.

This change assigns the 'compatible' string from the DT table, as the new
'indio_dev->name'. As such, the new device/part name now looks like
'adi,ad719x', and now has the vendor prefix.

Note that this change is not doing any NULL check to the return value of
'of_match_device()'. This shouldn't happen, and if it does it's likely a
framework error on the probe side.

Fixes 66614ab2be38: ("staging: iio: adc: ad7192: removed spi_device_id")
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
---
 drivers/iio/adc/ad7192.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7192.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7192.c
index 8ec28aa8fa8a..0039a45e1f33 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7192.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7192.c
@@ -888,6 +888,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ad7192_of_match);
 
 static int ad7192_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 {
+	const struct of_device_id *of_id;
 	struct ad7192_state *st;
 	struct iio_dev *indio_dev;
 	int ret, voltage_uv = 0;
@@ -937,10 +938,12 @@ static int ad7192_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 		goto error_disable_avdd;
 	}
 
+	of_id = of_match_device(ad7192_of_match, &spi->dev);
+
 	spi_set_drvdata(spi, indio_dev);
-	st->devid = (unsigned long)of_device_get_match_data(&spi->dev);
+	st->devid = (unsigned long)of_id->data;
 	indio_dev->dev.parent = &spi->dev;
-	indio_dev->name = spi_get_device_id(spi)->name;
+	indio_dev->name = of_id->compatible;
 	indio_dev->modes = INDIO_DIRECT_MODE;
 
 	ret = ad7192_channels_config(indio_dev);
-- 
2.17.1