code can raise a panic when the ssi_private->pdev is null
[...]
/*
* If codec-handle property is missing from SSI node, we assume
* that the machine driver uses new binding which does not require
* SSI driver to trigger machine driver's probe.
*/
if (!of_get_property(np, "codec-handle", NULL))
goto done;
[...]
ssi_private->pdev =
platform_device_register_data(&pdev->dev, name, 0, NULL, 0);
[...]
done:
if (ssi_private->dai_fmt)
_fsl_ssi_set_dai_fmt(ssi_private, ssi_private->dai_fmt);
Proposal was to not use ssi_private->pdev->dev here but adding a new parameter
of *dev pointer to this _set_dai_fmt() -- passing pdev->dev in probe() and
cpu_dai->dev in fsl_ssi_set_dai_fmt().
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> Reported-by: Jean-Michel Hautbois <jean-michel.hautbois@vodalys.com> Acked-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>