From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibmveth: Fix oops on request_irq failure Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:34:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20110929.003444.288841051862935342.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201109281533.p8SFXhfe030707@d03av04.boulder.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:46301 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752846Ab1I2EfC (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:35:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201109281533.p8SFXhfe030707@d03av04.boulder.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Brian King Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:33:43 -0500 > > If request_irq fails, the ibmveth driver will overwrite > the rc and end up returning a successful rc on its open > function, resulting in an oops later when a packet gets > sent and buffers are not allocated due to the failed open. > > Signed-off-by: Brian King Applied.