From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tty_register_device NULL pointer dereference in 2.6.31-rc4
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:10:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090725131046.0f076f37@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248520053.28545.156.camel@violet>
> > tty_register_device appears to have been called with a NULL pointer. Not
> > sure why however.
>
> if that is the pointer for the struct device, then that used to be fine
> in the past. Not all RFCOMM device have a parent when they are created.
The tty layer doesn't care about the struct device really. Nothing there
has changed. The NULL passed appears to be the driver argument.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-25 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 10:01 tty_register_device NULL pointer dereference in 2.6.31-rc4 Oliver Hartkopp
2009-07-25 10:50 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-25 11:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-25 12:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-07-27 9:59 ` Dave Young
2009-07-27 11:12 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-07-27 11:39 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-07-27 14:07 ` Dave Young
2009-07-29 14:00 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-07-30 9:15 ` Dave Young
2009-07-30 10:05 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-07-31 9:39 ` Dave Young
2009-07-31 10:10 ` Dave Young
2009-07-31 11:20 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-08-01 3:17 ` Dave Young
2009-08-01 9:15 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-08-01 9:21 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-08-01 9:32 ` Dave Young
2009-08-03 12:03 ` Oliver Hartkopp
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