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SubjectRe: [PATCH] driver-core: platform: Catch errors from calls to irq_get_irq_data
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On 09/14/2016 02:44 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:06:08AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>
>>> irq_get_irq_data() can return NULL, which results in a nasty crash.
>>> Check its return value before passing it on to irqd_set_trigger_type().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>>
>> Should probably be tagged for stable.
>
> Why, are there any systems that are currently broken without this change
> right now?
>
I only see it in -next, and that is due to a patch there.

Guenter

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