From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: phil.sutter@viprinet.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing fw_name string
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:30:25 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120327.223025.169090768895030295.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332761036-8913-1-git-send-email-phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
From: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:23:55 +0200
> This happened on a machine with a custom hotplug script calling nameif,
> probably due to slow firmware loading. At the time nameif uses ethtool
> to gather interface information, i2400m->fw_name is zero and so a null
> pointer dereference occurs from within i2400m_get_drvinfo().
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-26 11:23 [PATCH 1/2] wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing fw_name string Phil Sutter
2012-03-26 11:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] wimax: i2400m-usb - use a private struct ethtool_ops Phil Sutter
2012-03-28 2:30 ` David Miller
2012-03-26 14:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing fw_name string Ben Hutchings
2012-03-26 19:01 ` [PATCHv2 " Phil Sutter
2012-03-26 19:01 ` [PATCHv2 2/2] wimax: i2400m-usb - use a private struct ethtool_ops Phil Sutter
2012-03-28 2:30 ` David Miller [this message]
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