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From: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Oops in tda10023
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:25:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48401C63.1010601@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484014AC.3090603@gmail.com>

e9hack wrote:
> Antti Palosaari schrieb:
>>> I think the oops occurs, because tda10023_writereg() fails in tda10023_attach(). If 
>>> tda10023_writereg fails, an error message is printed. In this case, 
>>> state->frontend.dvb->num is accessed, but it isn't initialized yet.
>> hmm, I see the problem now. Originally state was initialized before 
>> tda10023_writereg() was called but after I did some changes this is not 
>> done anymore. And when writereg() fails in attach some reason it oops.
> 
> It wasn't introduced with your modifications. The frontend.dvb part is initialized after 
> the attach call. tda10023_writereg() must check, if state->frontend.dvb is initialized or 
> not.

yeah, you are correct. I looked through all frontend drivers and only 
TDA10021 and TDA10023 was using dvb->num in writereg. Anyhow, TDA10021 
is not affected because it does not write in attach.

Antti

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-30 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-29 16:50 [linux-dvb] Oops in tda10023 Sigmund Augdal
2008-05-29 17:52 ` Antti Palosaari
2008-05-30  9:15   ` Sigmund Augdal
2008-05-30 12:49     ` Antti Palosaari
2008-05-30 13:59   ` e9hack
2008-05-30 14:35     ` Antti Palosaari
2008-05-30 14:52       ` e9hack
2008-05-30 15:25         ` Antti Palosaari [this message]
2008-05-30 20:30           ` Antti Palosaari
2008-05-30 21:12             ` e9hack
2008-05-30 22:24               ` Oliver Endriss

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