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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
+
+========================================
+Bare UDP Tunnelling Module Documentation
+========================================
+
+There are various L3 encapsulation standards using UDP being discussed to
+leverage the UDP based load balancing capability of different networks.
+MPLSoUDP (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7510) is one among them.
+
+The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation support for
+tunnelling different L3 protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc. inside a UDP tunnel.
+
+Special Handling
+----------------
+
+The bareudp device supports special handling for MPLS & IP as they can have
+multiple ethertypes.
+The MPLS protocol can have ethertypes ETH_P_MPLS_UC (unicast) & ETH_P_MPLS_MC (multicast).
+IP protocol can have ethertypes ETH_P_IP (v4) & ETH_P_IPV6 (v6).
+This special handling can be enabled only for ethertypes ETH_P_IP & ETH_P_MPLS_UC
+with a flag called multiproto mode.
+
+Usage
+------
+
+1) Device creation & deletion
+
+ a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc
+
+ This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with ethertype
+ 0x8847 (MPLS traffic). The destination port of the UDP header will be set to
+ 6635.The device will listen on UDP port 6635 to receive traffic.
+
+ b) ip link delete bareudp0
+
+2) Device creation with multiproto mode enabled
+
+The multiproto mode allows bareudp tunnels to handle several protocols of the
+same family. It is currently only available for IP and MPLS. This mode has to
+be enabled explicitly with the "multiproto" flag.
+
+ a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype ipv4 multiproto
+
+ For an IPv4 tunnel the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to also handle
+ IPv6.
+
+ b) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc multiproto
+
+ For MPLS, the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to handle both unicast
+ and multicast MPLS packets.
+
+3) Device Usage
+
+The bareudp device could be used along with OVS or flower filter in TC.
+The OVS or TC flower layer must set the tunnel information in the SKB dst field before
+sending the packet buffer to the bareudp device for transmission. On reception, the
+bareUDP device extracts and stores the tunnel information in the SKB dst field before
+passing the packet buffer to the network stack.