From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
To: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>,
Linux DaVinci Mailing List
<davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com>,
Linux netdev Mailing List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_emac: fix oops caused by uninitialized ndev->dev
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:44:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537B2B1B.2000501@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400580697-24994-1-git-send-email-nsekhar@ti.com>
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 03:41 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> Commit e194312854edc22a2faf1931b3c0608fe20cb969 (drivers: net:
> davinci_cpdma: Convert kzalloc() to devm_kzalloc()) triggered
> a bug in emac_probe() wherein dev member of net_device is used
> for devres allocations even before it is initialized.
>
> This patch fixes that by using the struct device in platform_device
> instead.
>
> While at it, use &pdev->dev consistently for console messages instead
> of using ndev->dev for just one case and remove an unnecessary line
> continuation.
>
> Reported-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
> Helped-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Regards
Mugunthan V N
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-20 10:11 [PATCH] net: davinci_emac: fix oops caused by uninitialized ndev->dev Sekhar Nori
2014-05-20 10:14 ` Mugunthan V N [this message]
2014-05-20 16:46 ` Prabhakar Lad
2014-05-21 23:39 ` Kevin Hilman
2014-05-22 19:22 ` David Miller
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