Re: regression: NULL pointer dereference due to 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal")

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Tue Apr 05 2022 - 18:12:06 EST


On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 8:46 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Am 31.03.22 um 10:25 schrieb Sudip Mukherjee:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 8:07 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 28.03.22 um 17:41 schrieb Sudip Mukherjee:
> >>> Hi Thomas,
> >>>
> >>> We usually run boot tests with linux mainline HEAD commit almost every
> >>> night on ppc64 qemu. And my tests had been failing for last few days.
> >>
> >> Could you please provide your kernel's config file?
> >
> > Thanks for taking a look at it.
> > The config is attached.
> >
> >
>
> I was able to reproduce and fix the issue locally. Please have a look at
> [1] for the patch.

Thanks Thomas.

And I can confirm it fixes the problem for me too.
Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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Regards
Sudip