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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: pl011: protect attribute read from NULL platform
 data struct
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:23:22 +0100
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On Mon, 13 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrot=
e:
>=20
> > It's completely feasible that platform data will be empty i.e. when
> > booting with Device Tree with no device AUXDATA. So we must protect
> > it's use in these use-cases, or risk a kernel Oops.
> >
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> > Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > *******                                                        ****=
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> > If this issue has not already been fixed, this patch should be appl=
ied
> > during the v3.10 -rc:s, as it fixes a serious bug which was introdu=
ced
> > in the merge-window.
> > *******                                                        ****=
***
>=20
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>=20
> You should probably put Greg on To: so that he picks this up for
> the -rc:s ASAP.

I spoke with Greg yesterday. He's catching up on mail.

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