Re: [PATCH] pci: of : fix BUG: unable to handle kernel

[Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> wrote:
> On 03/11/2015 08:49 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:35:45AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@ti.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On some platforms such as that based on x86, ia64 etc, root bus is
>>>> created with parent node passed in as NULL to pci_create_root_bus().
>>>> On these platforms, the patch series "PCI: get DMA configuration from
>>>> parent device" when applied causes kernel crash. So add a check for this
>>>> in of_pci_dma_configure()
>>>
>>>
>>> Wouldn't these arches have OF disabled and call an empty function?
>>> Regardless, we still need this.
>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@ti.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm assuming Bjorn will apply this.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Rob Herring<robh@kernel.org>
>>
>>
>> It might be an idea to read the subject line...
>>
>> "fix BUG: unable to handle kernel"
>
> Russell,
>
> I will fix the subject as "fix BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer"
> and re-send.

Russell's point is the subject applies to every fix for a BUG.
Something like "of/pci: fix of_pci_dma_configure parent ptr NULL
dereference".

Rob