Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 May 2013 21:09:38 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] serial: pl011: protect attribute read from NULL platform data struct | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> It's completely feasible that platform data will be empty i.e. when > booting with Device Tree with no device AUXDATA. So we must protect > it's use in these use-cases, or risk a kernel Oops. > > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> > Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> > --- > ******* ******* > If this issue has not already been fixed, this patch should be applied > during the v3.10 -rc:s, as it fixes a serious bug which was introduced > in the merge-window. > ******* *******
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
You should probably put Greg on To: so that he picks this up for the -rc:s ASAP.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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