[PATCH] fix add notifier crashes

linas linas at austin.ibm.com
Fri Nov 4 07:53:31 EST 2005


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:29:55AM -0600, John Rose was heard to remark:
> Hi Paul-
> 
> The extraction of PCI stuff from struct device_node left some false
> assumptions in notifier code.  As a result, dynamic add crashes when
> non-PCI nodes are added.  This patch fixes these assumptions.

This is more or less the same as the patch I sent on 4 October.
It was called "crash-on-pci-slot-add.patch"

There's another closely related null ptr deref that is fixed in the
patch "rpaphp-crashing.patch" that was the next one in that series.

Anyway, other than that, it looks good to me.

--linas




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