It's completely feasible that platform data will be empty i.e. when
booting with Device Tree with no device AUXDATA. So we must protect
it's use in these use-cases, or risk a kernel Oops.
Cc: Russell King <li...@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ser...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
---
******* *******
If this issue has not already been fixed, this patch should be applied
during the v3.10 -rc:s, as it fixes a serious bug which was introduced
in the merge-window.
******* *******
drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
index 8ab70a6..e2774f9 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static void pl011_dma_probe_initcall(struct device *dev,
struct uart_amba_port *
dmaengine_slave_config(chan, &rx_conf);
uap->dmarx.chan = chan;
- if (plat->dma_rx_poll_enable) {
+ if (plat && plat->dma_rx_poll_enable) {
/* Set poll rate if specified. */
if (plat->dma_rx_poll_rate) {
uap->dmarx.auto_poll_rate = false;
--
1.7.10.4
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