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From: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [BUG][PATCH] e1000: Fix invalid memory reference
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:27:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <439EA1F4.3000204@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)

Hi,

I encountered a kernel panic which was caused by the invalid memory
access by e1000 driver. The following patch fixes this issue.

Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige


This patch fixes invalid memory reference in the e1000 driver which
would cause kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>

 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc5/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5.orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ e1000_check_fiber_options(struct e1000_a
 static void __devinit
 e1000_check_copper_options(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
 {
-	int speed, dplx;
+	int speed, dplx, an;
 	int bd = adapter->bd_number;
 
 	{ /* Speed */
@@ -641,8 +641,12 @@ e1000_check_copper_options(struct e1000_
 					 .p = an_list }}
 		};
 
-		int an = AutoNeg[bd];
-		e1000_validate_option(&an, &opt, adapter);
+		if (num_AutoNeg > bd) {
+			an = AutoNeg[bd];
+			e1000_validate_option(&an, &opt, adapter);
+		} else {
+			an = opt.def;
+		}
 		adapter->hw.autoneg_advertised = an;
 	}
 

             reply	other threads:[~2005-12-13 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-13 10:27 Kenji Kaneshige [this message]
2005-12-17  2:41 ` [BUG][PATCH] e1000: Fix invalid memory reference Jeff Kirsher
2005-12-19  2:33   ` Kenji Kaneshige
2005-12-19 21:26 ` Jeff Kirsher
2005-12-19 22:36 ` Jesse Brandeburg

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