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From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
To: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: device: fix NULL pointer dereference on driver removal
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:12:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150826141221.GB14625@saruman.tx.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_JsqJYwQhFyZBFL2eC5mwO-o9xf3K5nn7vgfus_ySBR7NMWA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 08:14:36AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> wrote:
> > If we don't insert resources into the resource tree,
> > calls to of_platform_depopulate() will end up in NULL
> > pointer dereferences because the resource parent will
> > be set to NULL even though we still have more resources
> > to go through.
> 
> Long standing problem. A fix is in -next now and will go into 4.3 (plus stable):
> 
> commit 11c63e4718acad3d8f04601c80fddd4b3d1455b1
> Author: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
> Date:   Sun Jun 7 15:20:11 2015 +0100
> 
>     drivercore: Fix unregistration path of platform devices

that commit works, but too late to add a Tested-by :-)

-- 
balbi

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-25 19:34 [PATCH] of: device: fix NULL pointer dereference on driver removal Felipe Balbi
2015-08-26 13:14 ` Rob Herring
2015-08-26 14:12   ` Felipe Balbi [this message]

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