Re: powerpc: Fix crash introduced with commit 5657933dbb6e

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Mar 14 2017 - 07:46:11 EST


On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 02:33:51 UTC, Larry Finger wrote:
> Code inserted during the code merged between kernels 4.10 and 4.11-rc1
> caused an early panic quickly followed by a complete shutdown for
> PowerPC. The traceback was not displayed long enough to read or
> photograph, thus it is not reproduced here.
>
> 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.
>
> Fixes: commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops from struct dev_archdata into struct device")
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/46f401c4297a2232a037ad8801b6c8

cheers