According to Timur Tabi This bug in older U-Boots is definitely PowerPC-specific So before allowing this driver to be built for platforms other than PPC32, make sure that we don't accept malformed device trees on those other platforms. Suggested-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c index c055abf4c919..9436b93d5cfa 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c @@ -1392,6 +1392,13 @@ static int ucc_uart_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev) if (val) qe_port->port.uartclk = val; else { + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC32)) { + dev_err(&ofdev->dev, + "invalid brg-frequency in device tree\n"); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out_np; + } + /* * Older versions of U-Boot do not initialize the brg-frequency * property, so in this case we assume the BRG frequency is -- 2.23.0