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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] stmmac: prevent probe drivers to crash kernel
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:24:45 -0800 (PST)
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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:38:03 +0200

> In the case when alloc_netdev fails we return NULL to a caller. But there is no
> check for NULL in the probe drivers. This patch changes NULL to an error
> pointer. The function description is amended to reflect what we may get
> returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

Applied, thank you.