Re: [PATCH 1/1] rtc: pcf85063: fallback to parent of_node

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Hello Greg,

On 17.04.2021 00:16:40, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:10:26 -0500, Francois Gervais wrote:
> > The rtc device node is always or at the very least can possibly be NULL.
> > 
> > Since v5.12-rc1-dontuse/3c9ea42802a1fbf7ef29660ff8c6e526c58114f6 this
> > will lead to a NULL pointer dereference.
> > 
> > To fix this we fallback to using the parent node which is the i2c client
> > node as set by devm_rtc_allocate_device().
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> 
> [1/1] rtc: pcf85063: fallback to parent of_node
>       commit: 03531606ef4cda25b629f500d1ffb6173b805c05
> 
> I made the fallback unconditionnal because this should have been that way from
> the beginning as you point out.

can you queue this for stable, as it causes a NULL Pointer deref with
(at least) v5.12.

Thanks,
Marc

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