Re: [Regression, 2.6.33-rc1->current git] NULL pointer in usb_serial_probe() introduced by the recent kfifo changes

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:17:31AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:10:48AM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 21:37 -0800 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:51:31AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Something like the patch below is necessary to fix a new NULL pointer deref
> > > > in usb_serial_probe() that appeared after the recent kfifo changes (in short,
> > > > the kfifo changes modified the semantics of kfifo_alloc() that
> > > > usb_serial_probe() reiled on).
> > > 
> > > What semantic changed?  I thought that the kfifo patches came with
> > > patches that also fixed up any changed that were needed.  What went
> > > wrong here?
> > > 
> > 
> > This one is a new user of the kfifo API, so it forget to port it to the
> > new kfifo API.
> > 
> > Please make the write_fifo in place. Here is my patch to fix the
> > regression and full ported version.
> 
> Thanks, I'll queue this up and send it to Linus later today.

Heh, nevermind, Linus took it already :)

thanks,

greg k-h