[PATCH] imx: power-domain: Fix crash due to uninitialized 'id' field

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Tue Jul 22 12:09:38 CEST 2025


Hi Frieder,

On 22/07/2025 at 10:31:18 +02, Frieder Schrempf <frieder at fris.de> wrote:

> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf at kontron.de>
>
> In case of the i.MX8M power-domains (i.MX8MQ, MM, MN) there is only
> one power-domain for each device. Therefore the 'id' field in struct
> power_domain should always be zero.
>
> Currently if a power-domain is accessed after the initial bind, the
> 'id' field is left uninitialized. This didn't cause any problems
> until the following commits were introduced:
>
> 9086b64ca071 ("power-domain: Add support for refcounting (again)")
> a785ef24487b ("imx: power-domain: Enable refcounting on imx8mp")
>
> Now the 'id' field gets accessed in the power_domain_off() sequence
> and the invalid value causes "Synchronous Abort" failures.
>
> This was observed on a i.MX8MM board when running "usb start" and
> then "usb stop".
>
> Fix this issue by setting power_domain->id to '0' in
> imx8m_power_domain_of_xlate().
>
> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf at kontron.de>
> Fixes: d08a194871fd ("imx: add support for i.MX8MQ power domain controller")
> Fixes: 9086b64ca071 ("power-domain: Add support for refcounting (again)")
> ---
>  drivers/power/domain/imx8m-power-domain.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/power/domain/imx8m-power-domain.c b/drivers/power/domain/imx8m-power-domain.c
> index b44aae78e6d..a7e64971a2a 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/domain/imx8m-power-domain.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/domain/imx8m-power-domain.c
> @@ -468,6 +468,8 @@ out_clk_disable:
>  static int imx8m_power_domain_of_xlate(struct power_domain *power_domain,
>  				      struct ofnode_phandle_args *args)
>  {
> +	power_domain->id = 0;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }

Looks like a correct fix. I wonder how many drivers do not properly set
an id though. Thanks a lot!

Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>

Thanks,
Miquèl


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