Re: [PATCH] clk: Correct handling of NULL clk in __clk_{get, put}

From: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
To: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>,
	linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: Correct handling of NULL clk in __clk_{get, put}
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:02:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F8E9E8.8060408@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK9yfHxnrM--A_SZSBWzQ2B7zrtU+=n77H61bzq4ddtLrpHMBg@mail.gmail.com>

On 30/01/14 05:50, Sachin Kamat wrote:
> On 10 January 2014 15:34, Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com> wrote:
>> > On 08/01/14 05:44, Sachin Kamat wrote:
>>> >> Hi Sylwester,
>>> >>
>>> >> On 7 January 2014 17:33, Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com> wrote:
>>>> >>> Ensure clk->kref is dereferenced only when clk is not NULL.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
>>>> >>> ---
>>>> >>> Hi Sachin,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> please try if this patch fixes the exyno5420 boot crash.
>>> >>
>>> >> Confirmed that this patch works fine on 5420 as well as already
>>> >> working 4210 and 5250 boards.
>>> >> Thanks for the quick fix.
>>> >>
>>> >> Tested-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
>> >
>> > Thanks Sachin. Mike, it seems we need this patch on top of
>> > my clk-unregister branch. Sorry for overlooking this issue.
>> > Could you add the $subject patch to your clk-next tree ?
>
> Gentle ping Mike. Hope we can have this patch in rc-2.

A gentle reminder, this patch is still not in current -rc and is required
to fix booting of some exynos platforms.

Thanks,
Sylwester