From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753467AbZHBTa3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:30:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753392AbZHBTa2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:30:28 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44888 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753448AbZHBTaZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:30:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090802.123033.168343935.davem@davemloft.net> To: bzolnier@gmail.com Cc: pcnet32@verizon.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, error27@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net, eteo@redhat.com, julia@diku.dk Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcnet32: VLB support fixes From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <200907302317.52648.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200907302317.52648.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:17:52 +0200 > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > Subject: [PATCH] pcnet32: VLB support fixes > > VLB support has been broken since at least 2004-2005 period as some > changes introduced back then assumed that ->pci_dev is always valid, > lets try to fix it: > > - remove duplicated SET_NETDEV_DEV() call > > - call SET_NETDEV_DEV() only for PCI devices > > - check for ->pci_dev validity in pcnet32_open() > > [ Alternatively we may consider removing VLB support but there would not > be much gain in it since an extra driver code needed for VLB support is > minimal and quite simple. ] > > This takes care of the following entry from Dan's list: > > drivers/net/pcnet32.c +1889 pcnet32_probe1(298) warning: variable derefenced before check 'pdev' > > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Also applied, thanks.