When trying to boot from a loop mount path, the blspec code passes a NULL pointer to dev_name, because cdev->dev is not set for loop mounts: unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at address 0x00000020 pc : [<4fe09e28>] lr : [<4fe02305>] sp : 4ffef7c0 ip : 31b75c78 fp : 31b6a388 r10: 31b6a368 r9 : 315a4cac r8 : 00000001 r7 : 00000001 r6 : 311b8540 r5 : ffffffea r4 : 31b6a3f8 r3 : 00000000 r2 : 10000000 r1 : 00000001 r0 : 00000000 Flags: nzcv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 [<4fe09e28>] (dev_id+0xc/0x38) from [<4fe02305>] (blspec_scan_directory+0x3e1/0x484) [<4fe02305>] (blspec_scan_directory+0x3e1/0x484) from [<4fe02551>] (blspec_bootentry_provider+0x1d/0x3c) [<4fe02551>] (blspec_bootentry_provider+0x1d/0x3c) from [<4fe0984b>] (bootentry_create_from_name+0x23/0xdc) [<4fe0984b>] (bootentry_create_from_name+0x23/0xdc) from [<4fe246f9>] (do_boot+0x95/0x160) [<4fe246f9>] (do_boot+0x95/0x160) from [<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48) [<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48) from [<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634) [<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634) from [<4fe08249>] (parse_stream_outer+0xd9/0x164) [<4fe08249>] (parse_stream_outer+0xd9/0x164) from [<4fe08b6d>] (run_shell+0x31/0x60) [<4fe08b6d>] (run_shell+0x31/0x60) from [<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48) [<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48) from [<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634) [<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634) from [<4fe085fd>] (run_list_real+0x285/0x634) [<4fe444b9>] (unwind_backtrace+0x1/0x58) from [<4fe00b7d>] (panic+0x1d/0x34) [<4fe00b7d>] (panic+0x1d/0x34) from [<4fe42a75>] (do_exception+0xd/0x10) [<4fe42a75>] (do_exception+0xd/0x10) from [<4fe42ad5>] (do_data_abort+0x21/0x2c) [<4fe42ad5>] (do_data_abort+0x21/0x2c) from [<4fe42394>] (do_abort_6+0x48/0x54) Fix this by checking cdev->dev as well as cdev before calling dev_name. Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- common/blspec.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/common/blspec.c b/common/blspec.c index b258e6600b..6171461a72 100644 --- a/common/blspec.c +++ b/common/blspec.c @@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ static int blspec_boot(struct bootentry *be, int verbose, int dryrun) } pr_info("booting %s from %s\n", blspec_entry_var_get(entry, "title"), - entry->cdev ? dev_name(entry->cdev->dev) : "none"); + (entry->cdev && entry->cdev->dev) ? + dev_name(entry->cdev->dev) : "none"); ret = bootm_boot(&data); if (ret) @@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ int blspec_scan_directory(struct bootentries *bootentries, const char *root) found++; - if (entry->cdev) { + if (entry->cdev && entry->cdev->dev) { devname = xstrdup(dev_name(entry->cdev->dev)); if (entry->cdev->dev->parent) hwdevname = xstrdup(dev_name(entry->cdev->dev->parent)); -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox