Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 May 2013 10:23:22 +0100 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] serial: pl011: protect attribute read from NULL platform data struct |
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On Mon, 13 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.
I spoke with Greg yesterday. He's catching up on mail.
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