From: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: davinci: DA8XX: fix oops in USB PHY driver due to stack allocated platform platform_data
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:14:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77b0430f-3606-7195-6cde-eb90fc00c3fd@lechnology.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521136976-32730-1-git-send-email-david@lechnology.com>
On 03/15/2018 01:02 PM, David Lechner wrote:
> This fixes a possible kernel oops due to using stack allocated platform
> data for the USB PHY driver on DA8XX devices. If the platform device
> probe is deferred, then we get a corrupt pointer for the platform data.
>
> We now use a global static struct for the platform data so that the
> platform data pointer does not get written over.
>
> Tested on OMAP-L138 LCDK board using legacy board file.
>
> Fixes: 9b504750923cb ("ARM: davinci: da8xx: Add USB PHY platform device")
> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> ---
superseded by v2 that applies cleanly before common clock series
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-15 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-15 18:02 David Lechner
2018-03-15 19:14 ` David Lechner [this message]
2018-03-16 10:17 ` Sekhar Nori
2018-03-16 15:20 ` David Lechner
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