When booting with device tree, we don't have any pdata, and will get the following when trying to unload omap_hsmmc: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000044 pgd = edafc000 *pgd=adbbd831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 SMP ARM Modules linked in: omap_hsmmc(-) omap_serial pinctrl_single CPU: 1 Not tainted (3.7.0-rc4-00044-g8ca5f6a-dirty #245) PC is at omap_hsmmc_gpio_free+0x8/0x3c [omap_hsmmc] LR is at omap_hsmmc_remove+0xf0/0x174 [omap_hsmmc] psr: 60000113 sp : ee887ef0 ip : 00000040 fp : be83cc14 r10: 00000000 r9 : ee886000 r8 : c0014348 r7 : ee886000 r6 : eea1d010 r5 : eea1d000 r4 : 00000000 r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 00000000 Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user Control: 10c53c7d Table: adafc04a DAC: 00000015 Process rmmod (pid: 1758, stack limit = 0xee886240) Stack: (0xee887ef0 to 0xee888000) 7ee0: edbe1400 bf01250c eea1d018 eea1d010 7f00: bf0138ac c0331c64 ee886000 c0330528 eea1d010 bf0138ac eea1d044 c033063c 7f20: 00000000 bf0138ac c079f250 c032f618 00000000 00000880 bf013980 c00a42d0 7f40: c02ce9b4 70616d6f 6d73685f 0000636d c04ef560 c0014348 ee886000 ee886000 7f60: eeb21600 00000001 c00142a0 60000110 00000000 ef000000 be83cc14 00095f40 7f80: bf013980 00000880 ee887f8c 00000000 00000081 be83cba8 00000000 00000000 7fa0: 00000081 c00141a0 be83cba8 00000000 be83cba8 00000880 00000880 be83cba8 7fc0: be83cba8 00000000 00000000 00000081 00000000 00000000 b6f42000 be83cc14 7fe0: 00000000 be83cba0 000091cc b6eb48bc 60000110 be83cba8 aaaaaaaa aabaaaaa (omap_hsmmc_remove+0xf0/0x174 [omap_hsmmc]) (platform_drv_remove+0x1c/0x24) (__device_release_driver+0x90/0xf0) (driver_detach+0xb4/0xb8) (bus_remove_driver+0x88/0xdc) (sys_delete_module+0x144/0x220) (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c) Code: eaffffbe c073a1f0 e92d4010 e1a04000 (e5900044) Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- This is against v3.7-rc4, would be nice to get in during the -rc cycle. --- a/drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c @@ -377,6 +377,9 @@ static int omap_hsmmc_gpio_init(struct omap_mmc_platform_data *pdata) { int ret; + if (!pdata) + return 0; + if (gpio_is_valid(pdata->slots[0].switch_pin)) { if (pdata->slots[0].cover) pdata->slots[0].get_cover_state = @@ -418,6 +421,9 @@ err_free_sp: static void omap_hsmmc_gpio_free(struct omap_mmc_platform_data *pdata) { + if (!pdata) + return; + if (gpio_is_valid(pdata->slots[0].gpio_wp)) gpio_free(pdata->slots[0].gpio_wp); if (gpio_is_valid(pdata->slots[0].switch_pin)) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html