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authorHaojie Li <lihaojie@kylinos.cn>2026-08-25 18:08:45 +0800
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drm/mediatek: Add missing IS_ERR check for ovl_adaptor platform devicegrafted
platform_device_register_data() can fail and return an ERR_PTR, but the return value is used without checking, leading to an invalid pointer being stored in ddp_comp[].dev and passed to component_match_add() and mtk_ddp_comp_init(), which could result in a kernel crash. Add an IS_ERR() check to jump to the error handling path on failure. Fixes: 0d9eee9118b7 ("drm/mediatek: Add drm ovl_adaptor sub driver for MT8195") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Haojie Li <lihaojie@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: CK Hu <ck.hu@mediatek.com> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mediatek/patch/20260825100845.438893-1-lihaojie@kylinos.cn/ Signed-off-by: Chun-Kuang Hu <chunkuang.hu@kernel.org>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============================================
+Netdev private dataroom for 6lowpan interfaces
+==============================================
+
+All 6lowpan able net devices, means all interfaces with ARPHRD_6LOWPAN,
+must have "struct lowpan_priv" placed at beginning of netdev_priv.
+
+The priv_size of each interface should be calculate by::
+
+ dev->priv_size = LOWPAN_PRIV_SIZE(LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA);
+
+Where LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA is sizeof linklayer 6lowpan private data struct.
+To access the LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA structure you can cast::
+
+ lowpan_priv(dev)-priv;
+
+to your LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA structure.
+
+Before registering the lowpan netdev interface you must run::
+
+ lowpan_netdev_setup(dev, LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR);
+
+wheres LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR is a define for your 6LoWPAN linklayer type of
+enum lowpan_lltypes.
+
+Example to evaluate the private usually you can do::
+
+ static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar *
+ lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev)
+ {
+ return (struct lowpan_priv_foobar *)lowpan_priv(dev)->priv;
+ }
+
+ switch (dev->type) {
+ case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN:
+ lowpan_priv = lowpan_priv(dev);
+ /* do great stuff which is ARPHRD_6LOWPAN related */
+ switch (lowpan_priv->lltype) {
+ case LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR:
+ /* do 802.15.4 6LoWPAN handling here */
+ lowpan_foobar_priv(dev)->bar = foo;
+ break;
+ ...
+ }
+ break;
+ ...
+ }
+
+In case of generic 6lowpan branch ("net/6lowpan") you can remove the check
+on ARPHRD_6LOWPAN, because you can be sure that these function are called
+by ARPHRD_6LOWPAN interfaces.