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authorTim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>2011-09-21 13:19:12 -0700
committerJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2012-03-22 15:07:16 -0500
commitb8adde8ddec9ff62a21564fa8020b5463e70d4de (patch)
tree750515b98a74e80569148371754869956cea039d /kernel/debug/kdb
parentbec4d62ead8096e433d624d9339893f50badd992 (diff)
downloadlinux-b8adde8ddec9ff62a21564fa8020b5463e70d4de.tar.gz
kdb: Avoid using dbg_io_ops until it is initialized
This fixes a bug with setting a breakpoint during kdb initialization
(from kdb_cmds).  Any call to kdb_printf() before the initialization
of the kgdboc serial console driver (which happens much later during
bootup than kdb_init), results in kernel panic due to the use of
dbg_io_ops before it is initialized.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/debug/kdb')
-rw-r--r--kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
index 4802eb5840e1..9b5f17da1c56 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ kdb_printit:
 	if (!dbg_kdb_mode && kgdb_connected) {
 		gdbstub_msg_write(kdb_buffer, retlen);
 	} else {
-		if (!dbg_io_ops->is_console) {
+		if (dbg_io_ops && !dbg_io_ops->is_console) {
 			len = strlen(kdb_buffer);
 			cp = kdb_buffer;
 			while (len--) {