1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c
index 995fcef156fd..93f21aaf7c8e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ int btext_initialize(struct device_node *np)
         prop = get_property(np, "linux,bootx-linebytes", NULL);
         if (prop == NULL)
                 prop = get_property(np, "linebytes", NULL);
-        if (prop)
+        if (prop && *prop != 0xffffffffu)
                 pitch = *prop;
         if (pitch == 1)
                 pitch = 0x1000;