[PATCH] powerpc: Fix crash introduced with commit 5657933dbb6e

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sun Mar 12 04:07:24 AEDT 2017


On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
>
> The problem was bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops
> from struct dev_archdata into struct device"). The problem was a missing
> copy of critical information from struct dev_archdata into struct device,
> leading to the dereference of a null pointer.
>
> This fix was suggested by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.

I'm assuming I'll be getting this through the powerpc tree. Holler if
that isn't the case.

                Linus


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