This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: Add missing NULL terminator to avoid boot panic on PPC40x
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-add-missing-null-terminator-to-avoid-boot-panic-on-ppc40x.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From e6449c9b2d90c1bd9a5985bf05ddebfd1631cd6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabor Juhos <juh...@openwrt.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:44:28 +0000 Subject: powerpc: Add missing NULL terminator to avoid boot panic on PPC40x From: Gabor Juhos <juh...@openwrt.org> commit e6449c9b2d90c1bd9a5985bf05ddebfd1631cd6b upstream. The missing NULL terminator can cause a panic on PPC405 boards during boot: Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock1 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd init=/etc/preinit Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x6a5160 bootconsole [udbg0] enabled Page fault in user mode with in_atomic() = 1 mm = (null) NIP = c0275f50 MSR = fffffffe Oops: Weird page fault, sig: 11 [#1] PowerPC 40x Platform Modules linked in: NIP: c0275f50 LR: c0275f60 CTR: c0280000 REGS: c0275eb0 TRAP: 636f7265 Not tainted (3.7.1) MSR: fffffffe <VEC,VSX,EE,PR,FP,ME,SE,BE,IR,DR,PMM,RI> CR: c06a6190 XER: 00000001 TASK = c02662a8[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c0274000 GPR00: c0275ec0 c000c658 c027c4bf 00000000 c0275ee0 c000a0ec c020a1a8 c020a1f0 GPR08: c020f631 c020f404 c025f078 c025f080 c0275f10 Call Trace: ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! The panic happens since commit 9597abe00c1bab2aedce6b49866bf6d1e81c9eed (sections: fix section conflicts in arch/powerpc), however the root cause of this is that the NULL terminator were not added in commit a4f740cf33f7f6c164bbde3c0cdbcc77b0c4997c (of/flattree: Add of_flat_dt_match() helper function). Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juh...@openwrt.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/ppc40x_simple.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/ppc40x_simple.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/ppc40x_simple.c @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static const char *board[] __initdata = "amcc,makalu", "apm,klondike", "est,hotfoot", - "plathome,obs600" + "plathome,obs600", + NULL }; static int __init ppc40x_probe(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from juh...@openwrt.org are queue-3.4/powerpc-add-missing-null-terminator-to-avoid-boot-panic-on-ppc40x.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html