Re: [PATCH] serial: pl011: protect attribute read from NULL platformdata struct

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
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> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>

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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