From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, leonardo.lists@gmail.com,
Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: mpc52xx_uart: fix null pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:25:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100510162535.GA15137@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i2xfa686aa41005091504ve2b35a09m23cd2dc13a331f86@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:04:30AM +0200, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> wrote:
> > Commit 6acc6833510db8f72b5ef343296d97480555fda9
> > introduced NULL pointer dereference and kernel crash
> > on ppc32 machines while booting. Fix this bug now.
> >
> > Reported-by: Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
>
> Thanks for being so quick to pick up on this Anatolij. I've been
> traveling and not able to respond to stuff. I see that Greg has
> already picked this up (thanks Greg!), but FWIW:
>
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>
> Actually, now that I look, this fix needs to go into Linus' tree right
> away (not just linux-next) since the offending patch went in during
> the 2.6.34 merge window.
>
> Greg, I can either pick this up and push it out to Linus tomorrow, or
> let you do it. Whichever you prefer. Let me know so I don't cause
> conflicts in your tree.
I have 2 other tty/serial fixes to go to Linus for .34 along with this
one, so I'll be glad to send it to him. I've added your ack to the
patch.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 20:39 Oops in mpc52xx_uart_init (2.6.34-rc5) Leonardo Chiquitto
2010-05-04 21:14 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-05-04 22:18 ` [PATCH] serial: mpc52xx_uart: fix null pointer dereference Anatolij Gustschin
2010-05-05 12:40 ` Leonardo Chiquitto
2010-05-09 22:04 ` Grant Likely
2010-05-10 16:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-05-10 20:46 ` Grant Likely
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