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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: hotplug/cpqphp, fix NULL dereference
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:34:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100609223431.GD2533@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1276115473-2307-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz>

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:31:13PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> There are devices out there which are PCI Hot-plug controllers with
> compaq PCI IDs, but are not bridges, hence have pdev->subordinate
> NULL. But cpqphp expects the pointer to be non-NULL.
> 
> Add a check to the probe function to avoid oopses like:
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000050
> IP: [<f82e3c41>] cpqhpc_probe+0x951/0x1120 [cpqphp]
> *pdpt = 0000000033779001 *pde = 0000000000000000
> ...
> 
> The device here was:
> 00:0b.0 PCI Hot-plug controller [0804]: Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller [0e11:a0f7] (rev 11)
> 	Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device [0e11:a2f8]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 20:31 [PATCH 1/1] PCI: hotplug/cpqphp, fix NULL dereference Jiri Slaby
2010-06-09 22:34 ` Greg KH [this message]

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