[PATCH] drivers/crypto/nx: prevent oops on module exit

Seth Jennings sjennings at variantweb.net
Fri Oct 17 19:02:17 AEDT 2014


>> On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 09:43 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 15:30 -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
>>> > Check old_devdata->dev in nx-842 driver before accessing it, as
>>> > on systems without any nx-842 hardware, the ->dev will never be
>>> > set.  Currently, the module will cause an oops during unload
>>> > since old_devdata->dev is null.
>>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> Patch looks reasonable. But I can't merge it, at least not without an
>>> ACK:
>>>
>>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/crypto/nx/
>>> Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:IBM Power 842
>>> com...)
>>> Marcelo Henrique Cerri <mhcerri at linux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:IBM
>>> Power
>>> in-Nest...)
>>> Fionnuala Gunter <fin at linux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:IBM Power
>>> in-Nest...)
>>> Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> (maintainer:CRYPTO API)
>>> "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net> (maintainer:CRYPTO API)
>>> linux-crypto at vger.kernel.org (open list:IBM Power in-Nest...)
>>> linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org (open list)
>>>
>>>
>>> If any of the above is out of date please send me a patch for
>>> MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> I think Dan now owns that driver, Dan, please confirm.
>
> I guess I'm not on the maintainer list anymore, as I shouldn't be
> since I don't work at IBM anymore.

Wow, I messed that up.  Repeating myself :-/  Sorry for the noise.

Seth

>
> So... yeah.  I was the original co-author of driver so I acked it
> but I'm not the maintainer anymore.  Which I shouldn't be, since
> I don't work at IBM anymore.
>
> Seth
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben.
>>
>>
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