Christian Eggers d3b83a1442 regulator: dummy: force synchronous probing ...

commit 8619909b38 upstream.

Sometimes I get a NULL pointer dereference at boot time in kobject_get()
with the following call stack:

anatop_regulator_probe()
 devm_regulator_register()
  regulator_register()
   regulator_resolve_supply()
    kobject_get()

By placing some extra BUG_ON() statements I could verify that this is
raised because probing of the 'dummy' regulator driver is not completed
('dummy_regulator_rdev' is still NULL).

In the JTAG debugger I can see that dummy_regulator_probe() and
anatop_regulator_probe() can be run by different kernel threads
(kworker/u4:*).  I haven't further investigated whether this can be
changed or if there are other possibilities to force synchronization
between these two probe routines.  On the other hand I don't expect much
boot time penalty by probing the 'dummy' regulator synchronously.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 259b93b21a ("regulator: Set PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS for drivers that existed in 4.14")
Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250311091803.31026-1-ceggers@arri.de
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2025-03-28 22:03:29 +01:00

2.1 KiB

Raw Blame History

View Raw