[PATCH] powerpc/prom_init: Check display props exist before enabling btext
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Sep 24 22:28:08 AEST 2020
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:34:07 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> It's possible to enable CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX for a pseries
> kernel (maybe it shouldn't be), which is then booted with qemu/slof.
>
> But if you do that the kernel crashes in draw_byte(), with a DAR
> pointing somewhere near INT_MAX.
>
> Adding some debug to prom_init we see that we're not able to read the
> "address" property from OF, so we're just using whatever junk value
> was on the stack.
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/1] powerpc/prom_init: Check display props exist before enabling btext
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6c71cfcc01685ef495ca7886471a76e73446424e
cheers
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