From: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
To: Luca Leonardo Scorcia <l.scorcia@gmail.com>,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Chun-Kuang Hu <chunkuang.hu@kernel.org>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/mediatek: dsi: Store driver data before invoking mipi_dsi_host_register
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 12:40:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5535ac41-efb8-4bf5-91bb-9b6f63517e8f@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260209090516.14369-1-l.scorcia@gmail.com>
Il 09/02/26 10:05, Luca Leonardo Scorcia ha scritto:
> The call to mipi_dsi_host_register triggers a callback to mtk_dsi_bind,
> which uses dev_get_drvdata to retrieve the mtk_dsi struct, so this
> structure needs to be stored inside the driver data before invoking it.
>
> As drvdata is currently uninitialized it leads to a crash when
> registering the DSI DRM encoder right after acquiring
> the mode_config.idr_mutex, blocking all subsequent DRM operations.
>
> Fixes the following crash during mediatek-drm probe (tested on Xiaomi
> Smart Clock x04g):
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 0000000000000040
> [...]
> Modules linked in: mediatek_drm(+) drm_display_helper cec drm_client_lib
> drm_dma_helper drm_kms_helper panel_simple
> [...]
> Call trace:
> drm_mode_object_add+0x58/0x98 (P)
> __drm_encoder_init+0x48/0x140
> drm_encoder_init+0x6c/0xa0
> drm_simple_encoder_init+0x20/0x34 [drm_kms_helper]
> mtk_dsi_bind+0x34/0x13c [mediatek_drm]
> component_bind_all+0x120/0x280
> mtk_drm_bind+0x284/0x67c [mediatek_drm]
> try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device+0x23c/0x320
> __component_add+0xa4/0x198
> component_add+0x14/0x20
> mtk_dsi_host_attach+0x78/0x100 [mediatek_drm]
> mipi_dsi_attach+0x2c/0x50
> panel_simple_dsi_probe+0x4c/0x9c [panel_simple]
> mipi_dsi_drv_probe+0x1c/0x28
> really_probe+0xc0/0x3dc
> __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
> driver_probe_device+0x40/0x120
> __device_attach_driver+0xbc/0x17c
> bus_for_each_drv+0x88/0xf0
> __device_attach+0x9c/0x1cc
> device_initial_probe+0x54/0x60
> bus_probe_device+0x34/0xa0
> device_add+0x5b0/0x800
> mipi_dsi_device_register_full+0xdc/0x16c
> mipi_dsi_host_register+0xc4/0x17c
> mtk_dsi_probe+0x10c/0x260 [mediatek_drm]
> platform_probe+0x5c/0xa4
> really_probe+0xc0/0x3dc
> __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
> driver_probe_device+0x40/0x120
> __driver_attach+0xc8/0x1f8
> bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xe0
> driver_attach+0x24/0x30
> bus_add_driver+0x11c/0x240
> driver_register+0x68/0x130
> __platform_register_drivers+0x64/0x160
> mtk_drm_init+0x24/0x1000 [mediatek_drm]
> do_one_initcall+0x60/0x1d0
> do_init_module+0x54/0x240
> load_module+0x1838/0x1dc0
> init_module_from_file+0xd8/0xf0
> __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x1b4/0x428
> invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x48/0xc8
> do_el0_svc+0x3c/0xb8
> el0_svc+0x34/0xe8
> el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4
> el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
> Code: 52800022 941004ab 2a0003f3 37f80040 (29005a80)
> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Leonardo Scorcia <l.scorcia@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
... but wait, what have I just read? Xiaomi Smart Clock?! MT8167?
Are you running upstream on this device?
If so, why don't you also contribute a nice devicetree to get this device finally
upstream?!?! :-)
Cheers,
Angelo
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dsi.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dsi.c
> index 4c2983852596..2358407b8a6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dsi.c
> @@ -1232,6 +1232,8 @@ static int mtk_dsi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> dsi->host.ops = &mtk_dsi_ops;
> dsi->host.dev = dev;
> + platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dsi);
> +
> ret = mipi_dsi_host_register(&dsi->host);
> if (ret < 0)
> return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Failed to register DSI host\n");
> @@ -1254,8 +1256,6 @@ static int mtk_dsi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> init_waitqueue_head(&dsi->irq_wait_queue);
>
> - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dsi);
> -
> dsi->bridge.of_node = dev->of_node;
> dsi->bridge.type = DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DSI;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-09 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-09 9:05 [PATCH] drm/mediatek: dsi: Store driver data before invoking mipi_dsi_host_register Luca Leonardo Scorcia
2026-02-09 11:40 ` AngeloGioacchino Del Regno [this message]
2026-02-09 18:46 ` Luca Leonardo Scorcia
2026-02-10 11:31 ` AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
2026-02-11 7:11 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-11 7:11 ` Claude Code Review Bot
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