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gpiolib: fix oops in gpio_get_value_cansleep()
authorDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:27:49 +0000 (20:27 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:52:36 +0000 (08:52 -0700)
commit978ccaa8ea5d8c7bf6b676209f2fc126eae6355b
tree4d639469edbdb2df8ec364bae1719bd083bc04da
parente3274e915061a65717454106301d4a5ea8f71783
gpiolib: fix oops in gpio_get_value_cansleep()

We can get the following oops from gpio_get_value_cansleep() when a GPIO
controller doesn't provide a get() callback:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request for instruction fetch
 Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000
 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
 [...]
 NIP [00000000] 0x0
 LR [c0182fb0] gpio_get_value_cansleep+0x40/0x50
 Call Trace:
 [c7b79e80] [c0183f28] gpio_value_show+0x5c/0x94
 [c7b79ea0] [c01a584c] dev_attr_show+0x30/0x7c
 [c7b79eb0] [c00d6b48] fill_read_buffer+0x68/0xe0
 [c7b79ed0] [c00d6c54] sysfs_read_file+0x94/0xbc
 [c7b79ef0] [c008f24c] vfs_read+0xb4/0x16c
 [c7b79f10] [c008f580] sys_read+0x4c/0x90
 [c7b79f40] [c0013a14] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38

It's OK to request the value of *any* GPIO; most GPIOs are bidirectional,
so configuring them as outputs just enables an output driver and doesn't
disable the input logic.

So the problem is that gpio_get_value_cansleep() isn't making the same
sanity check that gpio_get_value() does: making sure this GPIO isn't one
of the atypical "no input logic" cases.

Reported-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.27.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.25.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c