Re: New bug?

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> During testing functions transfer_one(), stumbled upon an error.
> I'm using kernel 3.13, so I had to apply a patch from upstream
> (spi: core: Fix transfer failure when master->transfer_one returns positive value).
> After applying all becomes normal with probing, but where did the error
> "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" ?
> Did someone have similar bugs?
>
> Thanks.
>
> spi_master spi0: failed to transfer one message from queue: 1
> 74x164 spi0.1: Failed writing: 1
> 74x164: probe of spi0.1 failed with error 1
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020
> CAN device driver interface
> pgd = c0024000
> [00000020] *pgd=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 63c11805 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
> CPU: 0 PID: 22 Comm: spi0 Not tainted 3.13.3 #1
> task: c396b260 ti: c396e000 task.ti: c396e000
> PC is at spi_pump_messages+0x150/0x194

Have you applied other patches from upstream?

E.g. e120cc0dcf2880a4c5c0a6cb27b655600a1cfa1d introduced a NULL
pointer dereference, with got fixed by
1f802f8249a0da536877842c43c7204064c4de8b.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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