From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1424323AbcFMTIP (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:08:15 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:43563 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753706AbcFMSh3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:37:29 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Neil Armstrong" , "Brian Hutchinson" , "David S. Miller" Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:36:37 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 037/114] net: ethernet: davinci_emac: Fix platform_data overwrite In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.36-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Neil Armstrong commit 210990b05a1247886539078e857cd038881bb2d6 upstream. When the DaVinci emac driver is removed and re-probed, the actual pdev->dev.platform_data is populated with an unwanted valid pointer saved by the previous davinci_emac_of_get_pdata() call, causing a kernel crash when calling priv->int_disable() in emac_int_disable(). Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c8622a80 ... [] (emac_int_disable) from [] (emac_dev_open+0x290/0x5f8) [] (emac_dev_open) from [] (__dev_open+0xb8/0x120) [] (__dev_open) from [] (__dev_change_flags+0x88/0x14c) [] (__dev_change_flags) from [] (dev_change_flags+0x18/0x48) [] (dev_change_flags) from [] (devinet_ioctl+0x6b4/0x7ac) [] (devinet_ioctl) from [] (sock_ioctl+0x1d8/0x2c0) [] (sock_ioctl) from [] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x41c/0x600) [] (do_vfs_ioctl) from [] (SyS_ioctl+0x6c/0x7c) [] (SyS_ioctl) from [] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c) Fixes: 42f59967a091 ("net: ethernet: davinci_emac: add OF support") Cc: Brian Hutchinson Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c @@ -1843,8 +1843,6 @@ davinci_emac_of_get_pdata(struct platfor pdata->hw_ram_addr = auxdata->hw_ram_addr; } - pdev->dev.platform_data = pdata; - return pdata; }