mal_probe crash

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 07:46:34 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 03:44:34PM -0500, Sean MacLennan wrote:
>With Linus' latest git, mal_probe crashes. It calls netif_napi_add with
>the first parameter NULL. This was ok since the parameter, a net
>device, was only used if CONFIG_NETPOLL was set.
>
>Now it is always de-referenced. A quick check shows that ibm_newemac is
>the only driver that passed NULL as the first parameter to this call in
>2.6.28.
>
>I don't really follow ibm_newemac changes, so the patch may be waiting
>to be applied. This is really just a heads up.

I haven't heard of that, so I doubt there's a patch pending.  *Sigh*

josh



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