Re: [PATCH 4.14 31/64] spi: fix IDR collision on systems with both fixed and dynamic SPI bus numbers

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Thu Sep 27 2018 - 07:46:59 EST


Hi Greg,

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Kirill Kapranov <kirill.kapranov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 1a4327fbf4554d5b78d75b19a13d40d6de220159 upstream.
>
> On systems where some controllers get a dynamic ID assigned and some have
> a fixed number (e.g. from ACPI tables), the current implementation might
> run into an IDR collision: in case of a fixed bus number is gotten by a
> driver (but not marked busy in IDR tree) and a driver with dynamic bus
> number gets the same ID and predictably fails.
>
> Fix this by means of checking-in fixed IDsin IDR as far as dynamic ones
> at the moment of the controller registration.
>
> Fixes: 9b61e302210e (spi: Pick spi bus number from Linux idr or spi alias)
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Kapranov <kirill.kapranov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There is another later patch which fixes this patch.

04b2d03a7565 ("spi: Fix double IDR allocation with DT aliases") , can
you please add it to the release also..


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Regards
Sudip