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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v4.7.2: Oops] When loading IT87 HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:06:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160829120634.039204a6@endymion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1xhMXZNMYMew4N2SZdhJm9FaiRjr=T63+72UdYpYfC+api_A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Alexander,

On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 18:52:42 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> I get an Oops when loading it87.ko on a 4.7.2 kernel. See below for details:

it87_attributes_in lacks its NULL terminator, looks suspicious to me.
Can you try the following quick fix?

---
 drivers/hwmon/it87.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- linux-4.7.orig/drivers/hwmon/it87.c	2016-07-04 08:01:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-4.7/drivers/hwmon/it87.c	2016-08-29 12:04:52.926911625 +0200
@@ -2015,6 +2015,7 @@ static struct attribute *it87_attributes
 	&sensor_dev_attr_in10_input.dev_attr.attr,	/* 41 */
 	&sensor_dev_attr_in11_input.dev_attr.attr,	/* 41 */
 	&sensor_dev_attr_in12_input.dev_attr.attr,	/* 41 */
+	NULL
 };
 
 static const struct attribute_group it87_group_in = {

I'm trying to find when the bug was introduced. I have a hard time
believing it went unnoticed for long. If it fixes your problem I'll
send a clean patch.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-27 15:52 [v4.7.2: Oops] When loading IT87 HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER Alexander Kapshuk
2016-08-29 10:06 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2016-08-29 10:11   ` Jean Delvare
2016-08-29 10:16     ` Alexander Kapshuk
2016-08-29 14:46     ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-29 16:05       ` Jean Delvare

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