[PATCH] mtd: gpmi-nand: Fix kernel crash due to missing verify_buf

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Fabio Estevam,

> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> 
> When selecting CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE=y and doing simple write tests
> the following kernel crash happens:
> 
> root at freescale /$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtd0 bs=128k count=1
> [   41.070000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> addr0 [   41.080000] pgd = c77ac000
> [   41.080000] [00000000] *pgd=4773c831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> [   41.090000] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] ARM
> [   41.090000] Modules linked in:
> [   41.090000] CPU: 0    Not tainted 
> (3.6.0-rc1-next-20120809-00002-ga25d017-d) [   41.090000] PC is at
> nand_verify_buf+0x18/0x5c
> [   41.090000] LR is at nand_write_page+0xc0/0x140
> [   41.090000] pc : [<c023e7d4>]    lr : [<c023fcfc>]    psr: 20000013
> [   41.090000] sp : c7779de4  ip : 00000000  fp : c6e60000
> [   41.090000] r10: 00000000  r9 : 00020000  r8 : 00000000
> [   41.090000] r7 : 00000000  r6 : c6e60000  r5 : c762cb10  r4 : 00000000
> [   41.090000] r3 : c762c8a8  r2 : 00000800  r1 : c6e60000  r0 : 00000000
> [   41.090000] Flags: nzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment
> user [   41.090000] Control: 0005317f  Table: 477ac000  DAC: 00000015
> [   41.090000] Process dd (pid: 427, stack limit = 0xc7778270)
> [   41.090000] Stack: (0xc7779de4 to 0xc777a000)
> ...
> 
> The NULL pointer dereference that happens in nand_verify_buf() is due to
> the missing gpmi_verify_buf implementation in the gpmi-nand driver.
> 
> Implement gpmi_verify_buf() to prevent this crash.
[...]

Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>

Definitelly should go for stable too.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut