This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
of: Fix crash if an earlycon driver is not found
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
of-fix-crash-if-an-earlycon-driver-is-not-found.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ab74d00a39f70e1bc34a01322bb59f3750ca7a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 00:55:47 -0800
Subject: of: Fix crash if an earlycon driver is not found
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
commit ab74d00a39f70e1bc34a01322bb59f3750ca7a8c upstream.
__earlycon_of_table_sentinel.compatible is a char[128], not a pointer, so
it will never be NULL. Checking it against NULL causes the match loop to
run past the end of the array, and eventually match a bogus entry, under
the following conditions:
- Kernel command line specifies "earlycon" with no parameters
- DT has a stdout-path pointing to a UART node
- The UART driver doesn't use OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE (or maybe the console
driver is compiled out)
Fix this by checking to see if match->compatible is a non-empty string.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/of/fdt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen_ser
if (offset < 0)
return -ENODEV;
- while (match->compatible) {
+ while (match->compatible[0]) {
unsigned long addr;
if (fdt_node_check_compatible(fdt, offset, match->compatible)) {
match++;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cernekee@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/of-fix-crash-if-an-earlycon-driver-is-not-found.patch
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