linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: Check for missing NULL terminators in of_device

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Message-ID: <5384CF04.8080106@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 May 2014 10:44:36 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
CC:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@...eaurora.org>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: Check for missing NULL terminators in of_device_id
 tables

On 05/25/14 07:13, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> Failure to terminate an of_device_id table can lead to confusing
>> failures depending on where the compiler places the array. Add a
>> check to make sure these tables are terminated. Thanks to Mitchel
>> Humpherys for coming up with the initial pattern.
> I've definitely debugged one of those problems. Do you have any actual
> fixes or there are no errors in the kernel?
>
>

Yes I sent five patches out. Here's one for example
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/23/731

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