Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755537AbdCKRHb (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:07:31 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f170.google.com ([209.85.223.170]:35840 "EHLO mail-io0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754017AbdCKRH0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:07:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170310023351.973-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> References: <20170310023351.973-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 09:07:24 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: zXKI_-eM95vjDPujca3gOejfT8I Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix crash introduced with commit 5657933dbb6e To: Larry Finger Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , ppc-dev , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "regressions @ leemhuis . info" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 525 Lines: 13 On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > > The problem was bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops > from struct dev_archdata into struct device"). The problem was a missing > copy of critical information from struct dev_archdata into struct device, > leading to the dereference of a null pointer. > > This fix was suggested by Benjamin Herrenschmidt. I'm assuming I'll be getting this through the powerpc tree. Holler if that isn't the case. Linus