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From: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in sysfs_hash_and_remove()
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:50:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1066157445.740.2.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031013163200.43e5d1bf.shemminger@osdl.org>

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On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 01:32, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:41:32 +0200
> Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I compiled 2.6.0-test6 and ran it on a laptop with cardbus.
> > I have an Xircom NIC and if I remove it during operation I get the bug
> > below.
> > 
> > I have yenta_socket and xircom_cb loaded as modules.
> 
> 
> The driver was setting the statistics pointer after registration had occurred,
> so on unregister the network code was removing a non-existent sysfs directory.
> 
> Try this please.

I've applied this patch and 
"[PATCH] sysfs -- don't crash if removing non-existant attribute group"
and now it works great.

Thanks.

-- 
/Martin

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-14 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-03 22:41 NULL pointer dereference in sysfs_hash_and_remove() Martin Josefsson
2003-10-06  6:01 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-10-13 23:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-14 17:32   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-14 18:50   ` Martin Josefsson [this message]

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