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

    TTY: pmac_zilog, check existence of ports in pmz_console_init()

to the 3.10-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:
     tty-pmac_zilog-check-existence-of-ports-in-pmz_console_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

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


>From dc1dc2f8a5dd863bf2e79f338fc3ae29e99c683a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:47:26 +0100
Subject: TTY: pmac_zilog, check existence of ports in pmz_console_init()

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]>

---
 drivers/tty/serial/pmac_zilog.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- 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);


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

queue-3.10/tty-pmac_zilog-check-existence-of-ports-in-pmz_console_init.patch
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