From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Cc: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5] pcnet32: remove incorrect pcnet32_free_ring
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:33:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4477AC66.1040709@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060525232240.GA30918@us.ibm.com>
Don Fry wrote:
> During a code scan for another change I discovered that this call to
> pcnet32_free_ring must be removed. If the open fails due to a lack of
> memory all the ring structures are removed via the call to free_ring
> and a subsequent call to open will dereference a null pointer in
> pcnet32_init_ring.
>
> Please apply to 2.6.17.
>
> Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
applied
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2006-05-25 23:22 [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5] pcnet32: remove incorrect pcnet32_free_ring Don Fry
2006-05-27 1:33 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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