[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "power: charger-manager: Fix NULL pointer exception with missing cm-fuel-gauge" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Oct 21 20:09:21 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    power: charger-manager: Fix NULL pointer exception with missing cm-fuel-gauge

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 0ecd841dd450f025f6380a3ddeefd0b82495121a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:27:03 +0200
Subject: power: charger-manager: Fix NULL pointer exception with missing
 cm-fuel-gauge

commit 661a88860274e059fdb744dfaa98c045db7b5d1d upstream.

NULL pointer exception happens during charger-manager probe if
'cm-fuel-gauge' property is not present.

[    2.448536] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[    2.456572] pgd = c0004000
[    2.459217] [00000000] *pgd=00000000
[    2.462759] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
[    2.468047] Modules linked in:
[    2.471089] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.17.0-rc6-00251-ge44cf96cd525-dirty #969
[    2.479765] task: ea890000 ti: ea87a000 task.ti: ea87a000
[    2.485161] PC is at strcmp+0x4/0x30
[    2.488719] LR is at power_supply_match_device_by_name+0x10/0x1c
[    2.494695] pc : [<c01f4220>]    lr : [<c030fe38>]    psr: a0000113
[    2.494695] sp : ea87bde0  ip : 00000000  fp : eaa97010
[    2.506150] r10: 00000004  r9 : ea97269c  r8 : ea3bbfd0
[    2.511360] r7 : eaa97000  r6 : c030fe28  r5 : 00000000  r4 : ea3b0000
[    2.517869] r3 : 0000006d  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 00000000  r0 : c057c195
[    2.524381] Flags: NzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
[    2.531671] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 4000404a  DAC: 00000015
[    2.537399] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xea87a240)
[    2.543388] Stack: (0xea87bde0 to 0xea87c000)
[    2.547733] bde0: ea3b0210 c026b1c8 eaa97010 eaa97000 eaa97010 eabb60a8 ea3b0210 00000000
[    2.555891] be00: 00000008 ea2db210 ea1a3410 c030fee0 ea3bbf90 c03138fc c068969c c013526c
[    2.564050] be20: eaa040c0 00000000 c068969c 00000000 eaa040c0 ea2da300 00000002 00000000
[    2.572208] be40: 00000001 ea2da3c0 00000000 00000001 00000000 eaa97010 c068969c 00000000
[    2.580367] be60: 00000000 c068969c 00000000 00000002 00000000 c026b71c c026b6f0 eaa97010
[    2.588527] be80: c0e82530 c026a330 00000000 eaa97010 c068969c eaa97044 00000000 c061df50
[    2.596686] bea0: ea87a000 c026a4dc 00000000 c068969c c026a448 c0268b5c ea8054a8 eaa8fd50
[    2.604845] bec0: c068969c ea2db180 c06801f8 c0269b18 c0590f68 c068969c c0656c98 c068969c
[    2.613004] bee0: c0656c98 ea3bbe40 c06988c0 c026aaf0 00000000 c0656c98 c0656c98 c00088a4
[    2.621163] bf00: 00000000 c0055f48 00000000 00000004 00000000 ea890000 c05dbc54 c062c178
[    2.629323] bf20: c0603518 c005f674 00000001 ea87a000 eb7ff83b c0476440 00000091 c003d41c
[    2.637482] bf40: c05db344 00000007 eb7ff858 00000007 c065a76c c0647d24 00000007 c062c170
[    2.645642] bf60: c06988c0 00000091 c062c178 c0603518 00000000 c0603cc4 00000007 00000007
[    2.653801] bf80: c0603518 c0c0c0c0 00000000 c0453948 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[    2.661959] bfa0: 00000000 c0453950 00000000 c000e728 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[    2.670118] bfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[    2.678277] bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 c0c0c0c0 c0c0c0c0
[    2.686454] [<c01f4220>] (strcmp) from [<c030fe38>] (power_supply_match_device_by_name+0x10/0x1c)
[    2.695303] [<c030fe38>] (power_supply_match_device_by_name) from [<c026b1c8>] (class_find_device+0x54/0xac)
[    2.705106] [<c026b1c8>] (class_find_device) from [<c030fee0>] (power_supply_get_by_name+0x1c/0x30)
[    2.714137] [<c030fee0>] (power_supply_get_by_name) from [<c03138fc>] (charger_manager_probe+0x3d8/0xe58)
[    2.723683] [<c03138fc>] (charger_manager_probe) from [<c026b71c>] (platform_drv_probe+0x2c/0x5c)
[    2.732532] [<c026b71c>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c026a330>] (driver_probe_device+0x10c/0x224)
[    2.741384] [<c026a330>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c026a4dc>] (__driver_attach+0x94/0x98)
[    2.749813] [<c026a4dc>] (__driver_attach) from [<c0268b5c>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x54/0x88)
[    2.757969] [<c0268b5c>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c0269b18>] (bus_add_driver+0xd4/0x1d0)
[    2.766123] [<c0269b18>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c026aaf0>] (driver_register+0x78/0xf4)
[    2.774110] [<c026aaf0>] (driver_register) from [<c00088a4>] (do_one_initcall+0x80/0x1bc)
[    2.782276] [<c00088a4>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0603cc4>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x100/0x1cc)
[    2.790952] [<c0603cc4>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0453950>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xec)
[    2.799029] [<c0453950>] (kernel_init) from [<c000e728>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
[    2.806572] Code: e12fff1e e1a03000 eafffff7 e4d03001 (e4d12001)
[    2.812832] ---[ end trace 7f12556111b9e7ef ]---

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
Fixes: 856ee6115e2d ("charger-manager: Support deivce tree in charger manager driver")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/power/charger-manager.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/power/charger-manager.c b/drivers/power/charger-manager.c
index 7287c0e..897aea6 100644
--- a/drivers/power/charger-manager.c
+++ b/drivers/power/charger-manager.c
@@ -1501,6 +1501,11 @@ static int charger_manager_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}

+	if (!desc->psy_fuel_gauge) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No fuel gauge power supply defined\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	/* Counting index only */
 	while (desc->psy_charger_stat[i])
 		i++;
--
1.9.1





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