[PATCH 7/8] powerpc/powernv: Don't crash if there are no OPAL consoles

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Jul 15 13:03:14 EST 2013


Some machines might provide the console via a different mechanism
such as direct access to a UART from Linux, in which case OPAL
might not expose any console. In that case, the code would cause
a NULL dereference.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
index 106301f..91cf97d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
@@ -380,18 +380,20 @@ static int __init opal_init(void)
 		pr_warn("opal: Node not found\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
+
+	/* Register OPAL consoles if any ports */
 	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_OPALv2))
 		consoles = of_find_node_by_path("/ibm,opal/consoles");
 	else
 		consoles = of_node_get(opal_node);
-
-	/* Register serial ports */
-	for_each_child_of_node(consoles, np) {
-		if (strcmp(np->name, "serial"))
-			continue;
-		of_platform_device_create(np, NULL, NULL);
+	if (consoles) {
+		for_each_child_of_node(consoles, np) {
+			if (strcmp(np->name, "serial"))
+				continue;
+			of_platform_device_create(np, NULL, NULL);
+		}
+		of_node_put(consoles);
 	}
-	of_node_put(consoles);
 
 	/* Find all OPAL interrupts and request them */
 	irqs = of_get_property(opal_node, "opal-interrupts", &irqlen);
-- 
1.8.1.2



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