This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ARM: davinci: edma: fix dmaengine induced null pointer dereference on da830

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     
arm-davinci-edma-fix-dmaengine-induced-null-pointer-dereference-on-da830.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 069552777a121eb39da29de4bc0383483dbe1f7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Porter <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:58:22 -0500
Subject: ARM: davinci: edma: fix dmaengine induced null pointer dereference on 
da830

From: Matt Porter <[email protected]>

commit 069552777a121eb39da29de4bc0383483dbe1f7e upstream.

This adds additional error checking to the private edma api implementation
to catch the case where the edma_alloc_slot() has an invalid controller
parameter. The edma dmaengine wrapper driver relies on this condition
being handled in order to avoid setting up a second edma dmaengine
instance on DA830.

Verfied using a DA850 with the second EDMA controller platform instance
removed to simulate a DA830 which only has a single EDMA controller.

Reported-by: Tomas Novotny <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Tomas Novotny <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c
@@ -743,6 +743,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(edma_free_channel);
  */
 int edma_alloc_slot(unsigned ctlr, int slot)
 {
+       if (!edma_cc[ctlr])
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        if (slot >= 0)
                slot = EDMA_CHAN_SLOT(slot);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.8/arm-davinci-edma-fix-dmaengine-induced-null-pointer-dereference-on-da830.patch
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