From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] DM9000: fix use of kfree() on net device Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 01:17:00 -0400 Message-ID: <464007CC.1080203@garzik.org> References: <20070507111325.GA32546@fluff.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Dooks Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:54315 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967897AbXEHFRC (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 01:17:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070507111325.GA32546@fluff.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Ben Dooks wrote: > The DM9000 network driver is calling kfree() on an netdev > causing the system to oops if the probe fails. The right > thing to do is call free_netdev(). > > Thanks to Russell King for spotting this. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks applied