[PATCH] cxl: Fix NULL pointer dereference on kernel contexts with no AFU interrupts
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jun 30 15:00:24 AEST 2016
On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 08:28 +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 30/06/16 04:55, Ian Munsie wrote:
> >
> > From: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
> >
> > If a kernel context is initialised and does not have any AFU interrupts
> > allocated it will cause a NULL pointer dereference when the context is
> > detached since the irq_names list will not have been initialised.
> >
> > Move the initialisation of the irq_names list into the cxl_context_init
> > routine so that it will be valid for the entire lifetime of the context
> > and will not cause a NULL pointer dereference.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
> As it's nice having your machine not crash on every shutdown...
Fixes: ????
cheers
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