From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@parkeon.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base/platform: Fix platform drivers with no probe callback (ex alarmtimer)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 14:02:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160105130221.GC11029@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1601051157580.2148@terrop.lan>
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 12:02:23PM +0200, Tero Roponen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I think this is the same problem that another Martin found and fixed in
> >
> > http://mid.gmane.org/1449132704-9952-1-git-send-email-martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com
> >
> > I didn't check, but thought Greg already picked that up?!
>
> I can confirm that applying the patch in that link to 4.4-rc8 fixes the
> following problem I've seen since 4.4-rc5:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000e20
> IP: [<ffffffffa017835e>] asus_sysfs_is_visible+0xe/0x1d0 [asus_laptop]
This is a separate bug however that is worth fixing, too. I guess this
is similar to the tpm problem my broken patch made obvious.
Best regards
Uwe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-04 18:17 Martin Fuzzey
2016-01-05 8:43 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-01-05 10:02 ` Tero Roponen
2016-01-05 13:02 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2016-01-05 11:14 ` Martin Fuzzey
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