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

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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

commit dc1dc2f8a5dd863bf2e79f338fc3ae29e99c683a upstream.

When booting a multi-platform m68k kernel on a non-Mac with "console=ttyS0"
on the kernel command line, it crashes with:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address   (null)
Oops: 00000000
PC: [<0013ad28>] __pmz_startup+0x32/0x2a0
...
Call Trace: [<002c5d3e>] pmz_console_setup+0x64/0xe4

The normal tty driver doesn't crash, because init_pmz() checks
pmz_ports_count again after calling pmz_probe().

In the serial console initialization path, pmz_console_init() doesn't do
this, causing the driver to crash later.

Add a check for pmz_ports_count to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Finn Thain <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/pmac_zilog.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pmac_zilog.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pmac_zilog.c
index 333c8d0..3f93c47 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/pmac_zilog.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pmac_zilog.c
@@ -2051,6 +2051,9 @@ static int __init pmz_console_init(void)
        /* Probe ports */
        pmz_probe();
 
+       if (pmz_ports_count == 0)
+               return -ENODEV;
+
        /* TODO: Autoprobe console based on OF */
        /* pmz_console.index = i; */
        register_console(&pmz_console);
-- 
1.8.3.2

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