From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754141Ab2HGKJM (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:09:12 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:34944 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753492Ab2HGKJK (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:09:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:13:39 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Fengguang Wu Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alan Cox , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russ Gorby Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: ifx6x60: fix paging fault on spi_register_driver Message-ID: <20120807111339.4a369066@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120807051247.GA24140@localhost> References: <20120807051247.GA24140@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:12:47 +0800 Fengguang Wu wrote: > [ 117.240866] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 815b627c > [ 117.240866] IP: [<813fe94b>] spi_register_driver+0xb/0x50 > ... > [ 117.240866] Call Trace: > [ 117.240866] [<817de977>] ifx_spi_init+0xbe/0xf0 > > The root cause is, spi_register_driver() is trying to write into the > passed *const* struct spi_driver. > > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu Acked-by: Alan Cox