linux-kernel - [ 15/49] powerpc: Add missing NULL terminator to avoid boot panic on PPC40x

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Message-Id: <20130113174258.990063287@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:43:10 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Gabor Juhos <juhosg@...nwrt.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: [ 15/49] powerpc: Add missing NULL terminator to avoid boot panic on PPC40x

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@...nwrt.org>

commit e6449c9b2d90c1bd9a5985bf05ddebfd1631cd6b upstream.

The missing NULL terminator can cause a panic on
PPC405 boards during boot:

  Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock1 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd init=/etc/preinit
  Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x6a5160
  bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
  Page fault in user mode with in_atomic() = 1 mm = (null)
  NIP = c0275f50  MSR = fffffffe
  Oops: Weird page fault, sig: 11 [#1]
  PowerPC 40x Platform
  Modules linked in:
  NIP: c0275f50 LR: c0275f60 CTR: c0280000
  REGS: c0275eb0 TRAP: 636f7265   Not tainted  (3.7.1)
  MSR: fffffffe <VEC,VSX,EE,PR,FP,ME,SE,BE,IR,DR,PMM,RI> CR: c06a6190  XER: 00000001
  TASK = c02662a8[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c0274000
  GPR00: c0275ec0 c000c658 c027c4bf 00000000 c0275ee0 c000a0ec c020a1a8 c020a1f0
  GPR08: c020f631 c020f404 c025f078 c025f080 c0275f10
   Call Trace:
   ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]---

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

The panic happens since commit 9597abe00c1bab2aedce6b49866bf6d1e81c9eed
(sections: fix section conflicts in arch/powerpc), however the root
cause of this is that the NULL terminator were not added in commit
a4f740cf33f7f6c164bbde3c0cdbcc77b0c4997c (of/flattree: Add of_flat_dt_match()
helper function).

Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@...nwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/ppc40x_simple.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/ppc40x_simple.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/ppc40x_simple.c
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ static const char *board[] __initdata =
 	"amcc,haleakala",
 	"amcc,kilauea",
 	"amcc,makalu",
-	"est,hotfoot"
+	"est,hotfoot",
+	NULL
 };
 
 static int __init ppc40x_probe(void)


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