From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: <linville@tuxdriver.com>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix NULL dereference BUG when using new_id
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 00:18:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360109904.2857.36.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360108823-5141-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 18:00 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> When the new_id entry is used for a foreign USB device, rtlwifi BUGS with
> a NULL pointer dereference.
[...]
So set no_dynamic_id in the usb_driver structures.
(But I wonder why USB behaves differently from PCI, which requires that
the dynamic ID's driver_data value (defaulting to 0) matches a value
used in a static ID entry.)
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-06 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-06 0:00 [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix NULL dereference BUG when using new_id Larry Finger
2013-02-06 0:18 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2013-02-06 0:44 ` Larry Finger
2013-02-06 1:16 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <1360113382.2857.48.camel-/LGg1Z1CJKReKY3V0RtoKmatzQS1i7+A3tAM5lWOD0I@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-06 9:01 ` Johannes Berg
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