Re: [PATCH] irq: fix possible null-pointer deref irq_domain_to_irq

[Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>]

Hi Rob,

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:37:32AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 05:14 AM, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:53:03AM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> >> It is optional for an irqdomain to have a to_irq() method, and for
> >> simple domains they often don't require any operations at all - just
> >> hwirq to Linux irq translation.  Check we have valid ops before
> >> dereferencing them.
> >>
> >> Patch originally by Rob Herring.
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Naturally git send-email doesn't know how to convert this into a CC, so 
> > Rob is now CC'd!
> > 
> > Jamie
> > 
> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> >> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Rob, I can't see that you've already posted this but I didn't want to
> >> hold Marc's GIC patches up.
> 
> Thanks. I didn't get around to it yesterday.
> 
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>

I've just noticed in kernel/irq/irqdomain.c, that the kerneldoc for 
irq_domain_add() says that a valid ops structure is required, so perhaps 
this fix isn't right and we should just have an empty ops structure for 
simple controllers...

Jamie