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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 09/15] drivers: acpi: iort: add support for ARM SMMU platform devices creation
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 06:50:07PM +0800, Dennis Chen wrote:

[...]

> > +static void __init iort_smmu_init(void)
> > +{
> > + struct acpi_iort_node *iort_node, *iort_end;
> > + struct acpi_table_iort *iort;
> > + struct fwnode_handle *fwnode;
> > + int i, ret;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * table and iort will both point to the start of IORT table, but
> > + * have different struct types
> > + */
> > + iort = (struct acpi_table_iort *)iort_table;
> >
> If the firmware of a platform happens to miss the IORT table, then
> iort_table here will be a NULL pointer, in this case 'NULL pointer
> dereference' kernel panic will occur, if this is not an expected
> behavior then we can add a sanity check here to avoid this. IORT
> missing is a fatal error? I don't think so.

Yes, I've already fixed it, thanks for pointing that out.

Lorenzo

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