From: Tobias Wolf <t.wolf@vplace.de>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Introduction of patches for CONFIG_MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB (ralink)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:22:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34413663.tGaeXtuGnb@loki> (raw)
Hi,
While trying to get a vanilla kernel 4.4 running with
CONFIG_MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB I noticed a hang while booting right after:
CPU0 revision is: 0001906c (MIPS 4KEc)
on a rt288x (ralink) based router (Belkin F5D8235 v1).
Initially I wanted to hunt down another bug described in detail in LEDE
Flyspray Issue Tracker for that router. [1] Basically all kernels 4.4+ causes
a kernel crash because of "BUG: Bad page state in process swapper".
Back to the hang for vanilla 4.4:
Analysis showed that initial_boot_params in of_scan_flat_dt() of drivers/of/
fdt.c is never checked before accessed.
In arch/mips/ralink/of.c __dt_setup_arch(__dtb_start) is called without any
checks right before calling of_scan_flat_dt() as well. Given that
initial_boot_params is null, that call never returned.
The hang was caused because arch/mips/ralink does not yet support
fw_passed_dtb and initial_boot_params was null therefore.
As I'm new to the kernel development procedure (thanks for some hints go to
Mathias Kresin) I'm sending these patches separately afterwards.
Best regards
Tobias Wolf
[1] https://bugs.lede-project.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=244
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