Crash seen on ARM Juno r1 with 4.8-rc8 when Coresight is enabled

[Mathieu Poirier]

On 29 September 2016 at 03:17, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
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> On 29/09/16 09:49, Rabin Vincent wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:41:41AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
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>>> Thanks you for reporting this Vankatesh,
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>>> Sudeep and Suzuki, can you guys help me with this - I don't have an R1
>>> to test with.
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>> I've seen this too, on other platforms.  This should fix it:
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>> From a9da7d7b47e67dd6ffcafddadb50e6f97503f296 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Rabin Vincent <rabinv at axis.com>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:54:21 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] coresight: check for NULL child_name
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>> Connection child names associated to ports can sometimes be NULL, which
>> is the case when booting a system on QEMU or when the Coresight power
>> domain isn't switched on.  fadf3a44e974 ("coresight: checking for NULL
>> string in coresight_name_match()") fixed one place to handle this but
>> the same check is needed in coresight_orphan_match() to prevent a crash
>> there.
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> Thanks Rabin, we have exact same fix in linux-next already.

Sorry for the late reply - I am currently travelling.

Sudeep is correct, we have this underway for the 4.9 cycle.

Mathieu

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> Regards,
> Sudeep