Re: [PATCH -next] serial: etraxfs-uart: Fix crash

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 11/01/2015 11:37 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 06:32:56PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> Since commit 7d8c70d8048c ("serial: mctrl-gpio: rename init function"),
>> crisv32 either do not build or crash as follows.
>>
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
>> Linux 4.3.0-rc7-next-20151101 #1 Sun Nov 1 11:41:28 PST 2015
>> ...
>> Call Trace: [<c0004a0e>] show_stack+0x0/0x9e
>> [<c004c0c0>] printk+0x0/0x2c
>> [<c00059d4>] show_registers+0x14a/0x1c2
>> [<c004c0c0>] printk+0x0/0x2c
>> [<c0004b52>] die_if_kernel+0x7c/0x9e
>> [<c0005346>] do_page_fault+0x32e/0x3e6
>> [<c01dc59c>] of_get_property+0x0/0x2c
>> [<c01e0558>] of_irq_parse_raw+0x12a/0x376
>> [<c01dc59c>] of_get_property+0x0/0x2c
>> [<c0053aca>] get_page_from_freelist+0x73e/0x856
>> [<c01dc59c>] of_get_property+0x0/0x2c
>> [<c0008912>] d_mmu_refill+0x10a/0x112
>> [<c01b488c>] devm_kmalloc+0x40/0x56
>> [<c01b47d0>] add_dr+0xc/0x1c
>> [<c01b4800>] devm_add_action+0x2/0x4e
>> [<c01abdbc>] mctrl_gpio_init_noauto+0x1c/0x76
>> [<c01abf9e>] mctrl_gpio_init+0x22/0x110
>
> There should be a warning at compile time about mismatching parameters.
>
>> The function call in the etraxfs-uart driver was not renamed,
>> possibly due to interference with commit 7b9c5162c182 ("serial:
>> etraxfs-uart: use mctrl_gpio helpers for handling modem signals").
>
> Yes. BTW, 7b9c5162c182 looks broken, too, because the interrupt handling
> is missing.
>

I can not comment on that; all I can say is that it works for me with qemu.

Guenter