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SubjectRe: [PATCH] microblaze: uartlite: avoid NULL pointer exception
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net> wrote:
> 'prop' is an pointer and can only be unset (NULL) after
> prop = of_get_property() when it goes wrong.
>
> Kernel oops in ulite_probe():
>
> [ 1.016645] uartlite 8fff0000.debug: failed to get alias id, errno -19
> [ 1.024246] Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11
> [ 1.029733] Registers dump: mode=27827D60
> [ 1.034362] r1=C79113E0, r2=00000000, r3=00000000, r4=00000000
> [ 1.040918] r5=C02E1E49, r6=C02D5918, r7=00000070, r8=000014C9
> [ 1.047475] r9=000014C8, r10=000014C9, r11=00000006, r12=FFFFFFFC
> [ 1.054318] r13=00000000, r14=C79114A0, r15=C0293BDC, r16=00000000
> [ 1.061261] r17=C0293BE4, r18=FFFFFFFE, r19=C788BDC8, r20=00000000
> [ 1.068207] r21=00000000, r22=FFFFFFED, r23=C788BDC0, r24=C033E840
> [ 1.075145] r25=C033EEA4, r26=00000000, r27=00000000, r28=00000000
> [ 1.082086] r29=00000000, r30=00000000, r31=C7824AC0, rPC=C0293BE4
> [ 1.089024] msr=000046A2, ear=00000000, esr=00000872, fsr=C7827E08
> [ 1.096281] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Now it is:
>
> [ 1.014924] uartlite 8fff0000.debug: failed to get alias id, errno -19
> [ 1.022543] uartlite 8fff0000.debug: failed to get port-number
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
Reviewed-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@petalogix.com>
Tested-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@petalogix.com>

> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c | 5 ++---
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c
> index a276282..3cba732 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c
> @@ -589,9 +589,8 @@ static int __devinit ulite_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "failed to get alias id, errno %d\n", id);
> /* Fall back to old port-number property */
> prop = of_get_property(pdev->dev.of_node, "port-number", NULL);
> - if (prop < 0) {
> - dev_warn(&pdev->dev,
> - "failed to get port-number, errno %d\n", prop);
> + if (!prop) {
> + dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "failed to get port-number\n");
> id = -1;
> } else
> id = be32_to_cpup(prop);
> --
> 1.7.0.4
>
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