From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Dooks Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix dm9000 release_resource Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:39:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20060831093940.GA3623@home.fluff.org> References: <0ML25U-1GIK892FsT-0007pS@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ben Dooks , Sascha Hauer Return-path: Received: from host-84-9-203-25.bulldogdsl.com ([84.9.203.25]:18178 "EHLO aeryn.fluff.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750699AbWHaJkA (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:40:00 -0400 To: Dirk Opfer Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0ML25U-1GIK892FsT-0007pS@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:04:45AM +0200, Dirk Opfer wrote: > dm9000_release_board calls release_resource with the platform resource > instead of the requested resource: > > db->addr_res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); > db->addr_req = request_mem_region(db->addr_res->start, i, pdev->name); > > dm9000_release_board: > > if (db->addr_res != NULL) { > release_resource(db->addr_res); > kfree(db->addr_req); > > With this behavior the kernel will crash on the second removal. The > attached patch fix this problem. > > > Signed-off-by: Dirk Opfer Acked-by: Ben Dooks