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

[Dan Streetman]

Yep, I own the driver now, I'll send a maintainers patch.


On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 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 If any of the above is out of date please send me a patch for MAINTAINERS.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.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
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