Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix crash introduced with commit 5657933dbb6e

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Mar 11 2017 - 12:08:10 EST


On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The problem was bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops
> from struct dev_archdata into struct device"). The problem was a missing
> copy of critical information from struct dev_archdata into struct device,
> leading to the dereference of a null pointer.
>
> This fix was suggested by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.

I'm assuming I'll be getting this through the powerpc tree. Holler if
that isn't the case.

Linus