[PATCH] powerpc: fix invalid pointer usage in ucc_slow_init()

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 16 01:53:44 EST 2007


On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> In two places, ucc_slow_init() passes a physical address instead of  
> the
> virtual address to functions that were expecting the latter,  
> causing a kernel
> panic.  us_info->regs contains the physical address of the UCC  
> register set.
> The registers are ioremap'd to kernel space, and the virtual  
> pointers are
> stored in us_regs.  The code was using us_info->regs when it should  
> have been
> using us_regs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>
> ---

It's my understanding that there aren't any in kernel users of  
ucc_slow at the moment, is that true?

- k






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