[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] arm: sunxi: Add NULL pointer check

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at bootlin.com
Fri Dec 14 10:49:26 UTC 2018


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 03:48:18PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 5:58 PM Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com> wrote:
> >
> > Current driver doesn't check if the destination pointer is NULL.
> > This cause the data from the FIFO to be stored inside the internal
> > SDRAM ( address 0 ).
> >
> > The patch add simple check if the destination pointer is NULL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c b/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c
> > index b86b5a00ad..38cc743c61 100644
> > --- a/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c
> > @@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ static inline void sun4i_spi_drain_fifo(struct sun4i_spi_priv *priv, int len)
> >
> >         while (len--) {
> >                 byte = readb(&priv->regs->rxdata);
> > -               *priv->rx_buf++ = byte;
> > +               if (priv->rx_buf)
> > +                       *priv->rx_buf++ = byte;
> 
> Acked-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>
> 
> But, have you tested how much data in the fifo before drained? It's
> better we can get the available data before reading via fifo_sta

This patch shouldn't be merged in its current state. Please look at
the on-going discussion.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
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