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x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:11:50 +0000 (11:11 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:10:52 +0000 (11:10 +0100)
commit2709c2a1b0165e7b4084077148697175ecd9d2c7
treeec979c76052ca3f5c6a64e79ffbaf73f83c57952
parentfef3fdf2d83cd0ca3bc0052ab58baab010929434
x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading

commit 47512cfd0d7a8bd6ab71d01cd89fca19eb2093eb upstream.

The goldfish platform code registers the platform device unconditionally
which causes havoc in several ways if the goldfish_pdev_bus driver is
enabled:

 - Access to the hardcoded physical memory region, which is either not
   available or contains stuff which is completely unrelated.

 - Prevents that the interrupt of the serial port can be requested

 - In case of a spurious interrupt it goes into a infinite loop in the
   interrupt handler of the pdev_bus driver (which needs to be fixed
   seperately).

Add a 'goldfish' command line option to make the registration opt-in when
the platform is compiled in.

I'm seriously grumpy about this engineering trainwreck, which has seven
SOBs from Intel developers for 50 lines of code. And none of them figured
out that this is broken. Impressive fail!

Fixes: ddd70cf93d78 ("goldfish: platform device for x86")
Reported-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/platform/goldfish/goldfish.c