From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwlwifi: fix kernel crash when unregistering thermal zone
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:59:17 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170121125917.47BA060851@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6a2209c-1343-cbda-c6c2-ae5eb93148d3@kernel.dk>
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> A recent firmware change seems to have enabled thermal zones on the
> iwlwifi driver. Unfortunately, my device fails when registering the
> thermal zone. This doesn't stop the driver from attempting to unregister
> the thermal zone at unload time, triggering a NULL pointer deference in
> strlen() off the thermal_zone_device_unregister() path.
>
> Don't unregister if name is NULL, for that case we failed registering.
> Do the same for the cooling zone.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.
92549cdc288f iwlwifi: fix kernel crash when unregistering thermal zone
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9522187/
Documentation about submitting wireless patches and checking status
from patchwork:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-21 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-17 22:22 iwlwifi: fix kernel crash when unregistering thermal zone Jens Axboe
2017-01-21 7:56 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-21 12:59 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
[not found] ` <20170121125917.2E08F609D0@smtp.codeaurora.org>
2017-01-27 19:48 ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-27 19:54 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 19:55 ` Jens Axboe
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2017-01-21 10:54 Coelho, Luciano
2017-01-21 11:22 ` Kalle Valo
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