Re: [PATCH] pci/of: Don't crash when bridge parent is NULL.

From: Grant Likely
Date: Wed Aug 17 2011 - 07:29:42 EST


On 11-08-16 10:11 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:16:18 -0500
Benjamin Herrenschmidt<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 11:24 -0700, David Daney wrote:
In pcibios_get_phb_of_node(), we will crash while booting if
bus->bridge->parent is NULL.

Check for this case and avoid dereferencing the NULL pointer.

Signed-off-by: David Daney<david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Jesse or Grant, I'm travelling, can any of you send that to Linus
asap ?

Sure looks fine. I'll send it off tomorrow (now that I'm back :).

Thanks,
Jesse

thanks Jesse.

Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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