The patch titled
mtd: m25p80: fix null pointer dereference bug
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mtd-m25p80-fix-null-pointer-dereference-bug.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: mtd: m25p80: fix null pointer dereference bug
From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch fixes the following oops, observed with MTD_PARTITIONS=n:
m25p80 spi32766.0: m25p80 (1024 Kbytes)
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008
Faulting instruction address: 0xc03a54b0
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
Modules linked in:
NIP: c03a54b0 LR: c03a5494 CTR: c01e98b8
REGS: ef82bb60 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.31-rc4-00167-g4733fd3)
MSR: 00029000 <EE,ME,CE> CR: 24022022 XER: 20000000
DEAR: 00000008, ESR: 00000000
TASK = ef82c000[1] 'swapper' THREAD: ef82a000
GPR00: 00000000 ef82bc10 ef82c000 0000002e 00001eb8 ffffffff c01e9824 00000036
GPR08: c054ed40 c0542a08 00001eb8 00004000 22022022 1001a1a0 3ff8fd00 00000000
GPR16: 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 ef82bddc c0530000 efbef500 ef8356d0
GPR24: 00000000 ef8356d0 00000000 efbf7a00 c0530ec4 ffffffed efbf5300 c0541f98
NIP [c03a54b0] m25p_probe+0x22c/0x354
LR [c03a5494] m25p_probe+0x210/0x354
Call Trace:
[ef82bc10] [c03a5494] m25p_probe+0x210/0x354 (unreliable)
[ef82bca0] [c024e37c] spi_drv_probe+0x2c/0x3c
[ef82bcb0] [c01f1afc] driver_probe_device+0xa4/0x178
[ef82bcd0] [c01f06e8] bus_for_each_drv+0x6c/0xa8
[ef82bd00] [c01f1a34] device_attach+0x84/0xa8
...
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c~mtd-m25p80-fix-null-pointer-dereference-bug drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c~mtd-m25p80-fix-null-pointer-dereference-bug
+++ a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int __devinit m25p_probe(struct s
flash->partitioned = 1;
return add_mtd_partitions(&flash->mtd, parts, nr_parts);
}
- } else if (data->nr_parts)
+ } else if (data && data->nr_parts)
dev_warn(&spi->dev, "ignoring %d default partitions on %s\n",
data->nr_parts, data->name);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
mtd-sst25l-non-jedec-spi-flash-driver.patch
sdhci-be-more-strict-with-get_min_clock-usage.patch
sdhci-of-fix-sd-clock-calculation.patch
sdhci-of-avoid-writing-reserved-bits-into-host-control-register.patch
sdhci-of-fix-high-speed-cards-recognition.patch
powerpc-introduce-and-document-sdhciwp-inverted-property-for-esdhc.patch
sdhci-of-dont-hard-code-inverted-write-protect-quirk.patch
sdhci-of-cleanup-esdhcs-set_clock-a-little-bit.patch
powerpc-85xx-add-esdhc-support-for-mpc8536ds-boards.patch
spi-add-support-for-device-table-matching.patch
mtd-m25p80-convert-to-device-table-matching.patch
of-remove-stmm25p40-alias.patch
hwmon-adxx-convert-to-device-table-matching.patch
hwmon-lm70-convert-to-device-table-matching.patch
spi-prefix-modalias-with-spi.patch
rtc-set-wakeup-capability-for-i2c-and-spi-rtc-drivers.patch
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