From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] devres: WARN() and return, don't crash on device_del() of uninitialized device
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:16:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5D5830.6000206@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247438766-17266-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>
> I just debugged an obscure crash caused by a device_del() of a all NULL'd
> out struct device (in usb-serial) and found that a patch like this one would
> have saved me time (in addition to improved chances of a bug report from
> users hitting similar driver bugs).
>
> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-12 22:37 [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 2.6.31-rc2-git Greg KH
2009-07-12 22:45 ` [PATCH 1/9] devres: WARN() and return, don't crash on device_del() of uninitialized device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-15 4:16 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-07-12 22:45 ` [PATCH 2/9] partitions: fix broken uevent_suppress conversion Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-12 22:46 ` [PATCH 3/9] sparc: remove driver-core BUS_ID_SIZE Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-13 1:20 ` David Miller
2009-07-12 22:46 ` [PATCH 4/9] Driver Core: remove BUS_ID_SIZE Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-12 22:46 ` [PATCH 5/9] Firmware: firmware_class, fix lock imbalance Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-12 22:46 ` [PATCH 6/9] driver model: fix show/store prototypes in doc Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-12 22:46 ` [PATCH 7/9] Sound: remove direct access of driver_data Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-13 9:44 ` Mark Brown
2009-07-14 3:59 ` Greg KH
2009-07-12 22:46 ` [PATCH 8/9] omap: video: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-07-12 22:46 ` [PATCH 9/9] wm97xx_batery: replace driver_data with dev_get_drvdata() Greg Kroah-Hartman
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