Hi,
On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 2:59 PM Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org wrote:
The of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node() could end up failing to find an adapter in certain conditions. Specifically it's possible that of_dev_or_parent_node_match() could end up finding an I2C client in the list and cause bus_find_device() to stop early even though an I2C adapter was present later in the list.
Let's move the i2c_verify_adapter() into the predicate function to prevent this. Now we'll properly skip over the I2C client and be able to find the I2C adapter.
This issue has always been a potential problem if a single device tree node could represent both an I2C client and an adapter. I believe this is a sane thing to do if, for instance, an I2C-connected DP bridge chip is present. The bridge chip is an I2C client but it can also provide an I2C adapter (DDC tunneled over AUX channel). We don't want to have to create a sub-node just so a panel can link to it with the "ddc-i2c-bus" property.
I believe that this problem got worse, however, with commit e814e688413a ("i2c: of: Try to find an I2C adapter matching the parent"). Starting at that commit it would be even easier to accidentally miss finding the adapter.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org
Later patches in this series won't work right without this one, but they won't crash. If we can't find the i2c bus we'll just fall back to the hardcoded panel modes which, at least today, all panels have.
I'll also note that part of me wonders if we should actually fix this further to run two passes through everything: first look to see if we find an exact match and only look at the parent pointer if there is no match. I don't currently have a need for that and it's a slightly bigger change, but it seems conceivable that it could affect someone?
(no changes since v1)
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
FYI that I've just posted v7 of this series and I've dropped ${SUBJECT} patch from my series.
I think that ${SUBJECT} patch is still correct and could be useful to land, but it's no longer needed by my series since I'm getting access to the DDC bus in a different way. If this patch needs to be spun, please let me know. ...or, feel free to land it! :-)
-Doug