From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759310Ab0FJXUs (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:20:48 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:40543 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750982Ab0FJXUr (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:20:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:19:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alex Chiang , Jesse Barnes , Jiri Slaby , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Linux kernel mailing list , Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: cpqphp: NULL ptr deref in cpqhpc_probe Message-ID: <20100610231919.GA21669@kroah.com> References: <4C0774C6.4090000@suse.cz> <20100608143739.192a94cd@virtuousgeek.org> <20100610223436.GE8257@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100610223436.GE8257@canonical.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:34:36PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > But I seriously think it's just time to rip this driver out of > the tree. If anyone is actually using this driver to do hotplug, > I will personally buy that person a full half-barrel of > Colorado's finest microbrew of choice in order to numb the pain > of making poor career decisions. Hell, we can drink it together, > during which time I'll hack on the driver. The code surely can't > get any worse. A real user found this problem on their machine, so you might have to go buy that barrel. Jiri has more details on that :) Me, I gave the machine that had this hardware in it to osuosl.org a long time ago, odds are, it's still being used by some group. thanks, greg k-h