From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] base: soc: Early register bus when needed
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:15:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3420819.lDRyD1Xpvb@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1475572167-29581-2-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:09:24 AM CEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> If soc_device_register() is called before soc_bus_register(), it crashes
> with a NULL pointer dereference.
>
> soc_bus_register() is already a core_initcall(), but drivers/base/ is
> entered later than e.g. drivers/pinctrl/ and drivers/soc/. Hence there
> are several subsystems that may need to know SoC revision information,
> while it's not so easy to initialize the SoC bus even earlier using an
> initcall.
>
> To fix this, let soc_device_register() register the bus early if that
> hasn't happened yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
>
Not nice, but I can't think of a better alternative, so
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-10 14:15 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1475572167-29581-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
[not found] ` <1475572167-29581-4-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
2016-10-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] base: soc: Check for NULL SoC device attributes Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-19 8:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <1475572167-29581-2-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
2016-10-10 14:15 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
[not found] ` <1475572167-29581-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
2016-10-05 12:17 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/4] soc: renesas: Identify SoC and register with the SoC bus Dirk Behme
2016-10-10 14:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-19 8:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-10-19 10:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-21 18:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-10-21 21:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-22 7:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-10-29 21:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-31 10:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-10-10 14:28 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-19 8:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-10-19 10:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <1475572167-29581-3-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
2016-10-19 8:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] base: soc: Introduce soc_device_match() interface Greg Kroah-Hartman
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