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To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: powerpc/sysdev/ipic: check primary_ipic NULL pointer before using it
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Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:36:13 +1100 (AEDT)
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On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 08:27:27 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> ipic_get_mcp_status() is used by targets implementing NMI
> watchdog in target specific machine check handler in order
> to known whether a machine check results from a watchdog
> NMI reset.
> 
> In case of very early machine check, primary_ipic pointer
> might not have been set yet, so ipic_get_mcp_status() needs
> to check it for nullity before using it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6beb3381b12793726783a5e9428250

cheers