From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755224AbZLDAEa (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:04:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754655AbZLDAE3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:04:29 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38367 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754524AbZLDAE2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:04:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20091203.160435.208352757.davem@davemloft.net> To: Tristram.Ha@Micrel.Com Cc: ben@simtec.co.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32 1/3] net: Fix ks8851 snl NULL pointer dereference Oops From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <14385191E87B904DBD836449AA30269D021A40@MORGANITE.micrel.com> References: <14385191E87B904DBD836449AA30269D021A40@MORGANITE.micrel.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) 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: "Ha, Tristram" Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:06:42 -0800 > From: Tristram Ha > > This fixes the NULL pointer dereference Oops in the ks8851 snl network driver during transmission. All socket buffers from the queue are processed inside the loop, but new workqueues have been scheduled to run. > > Signed-off-by: Tristram Ha Applied.