Re: linux-next: dock_link_device is oopsy

[Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Sa 18. Feb - 10:46:04, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > How about that one?
> > 
> > It's more broken than that.  Here's my attempt.  It boots on the
> > systems with dock_station_count 0, and it boots on my laptop with
> > dock_station_count 2; but I don't actually have any docking station,
> > so it still doesn't test very much (dock is 0 after the loop).
> 
> Well, there doesn't have to actually exist a physical dock station (or
> bay device) for dock_station_count to be > 0. It just tells that the
> ACPI objects are present and thus the system is capable of it.
> 
> So does this function actually also break on your laptop and you're
> getting the oops there, too?

It oopsed on the 4-year-old Fujitsu-Siemens laptop whose dock_station_count
was 0.  It did not oops on the new ThinkPad laptop whose dock_station_count
is 2, but no docks were found: so the function would only have been leaking
memory on that.

If docks were found, then I suspect it could have been scribbling, but I
cannot actually check if that's true (for all I know, dock_station_count
may be always 1 bigger than the most that that double loop can discover);
but at least the loop is now made safe against scribbling.

Hugh