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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:02:22 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Mans Rullgard <mans.rullgard@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: pl330: fix null pointer dereference in
	pl330_chan_ctrl()
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:36:31PM +0000, Mans Rullgard wrote:
> This fixes the thrd->req_running field being accessed before thrd
> is checked for null.  The error was introduced in abb959f.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans.rullgard@linaro.org>

I don't know what's happening with the PL330 driver, but there's patches
around to remove this file and merge it with the DMA engine driver.