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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:44:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090512174451.eeed4126.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090512170458.39c4ffb7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

Hi Dave,

This fixes it (I wonder if this bug is lurking in any other drivers):

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:24:02 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] net/ibmveth: fix panic in probe

netdev->dev_addr changed from being an array to being a pointer, so we
should not take its address for memcpy().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
---
 drivers/net/ibmveth.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
index 7902e5e..8daffad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struct vio_dev *dev, const struct vio_device_
  	netdev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX;
 	spin_lock_init(&adapter->stats_lock);
 
-	memcpy(&netdev->dev_addr, &adapter->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len);
+	memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, &adapter->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len);
 
 	for(i = 0; i<IbmVethNumBufferPools; i++) {
 		struct kobject *kobj = &adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].kobj;
-- 
1.6.3


-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:44:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090512174451.eeed4126.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090512170458.39c4ffb7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

Hi Dave,

This fixes it (I wonder if this bug is lurking in any other drivers):

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:24:02 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] net/ibmveth: fix panic in probe

netdev->dev_addr changed from being an array to being a pointer, so we
should not take its address for memcpy().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
---
 drivers/net/ibmveth.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
index 7902e5e..8daffad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struct vio_dev *dev, const struct vio_device_
  	netdev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX;
 	spin_lock_init(&adapter->stats_lock);
 
-	memcpy(&netdev->dev_addr, &adapter->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len);
+	memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, &adapter->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len);
 
 	for(i = 0; i<IbmVethNumBufferPools; i++) {
 		struct kobject *kobj = &adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].kobj;
-- 
1.6.3


-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-08  8:02 linux-next: Tree for May 8 Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-08 12:52 ` [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth module init Sachin Sant
2009-05-08 12:52   ` Sachin Sant
2009-05-08 19:57   ` David Miller
2009-05-08 19:57     ` David Miller
2009-05-08 22:33     ` Jiri Pirko
2009-05-08 22:33       ` Jiri Pirko
2009-05-11 17:07       ` [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit Sachin Sant
2009-05-11 17:07         ` Sachin Sant
2009-05-12  7:04         ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-12  7:04           ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-12  7:44           ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2009-05-12  7:44             ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-12  8:16             ` Jiri Pirko
2009-05-12  8:17             ` Wei Yongjun
2009-05-12  8:17               ` Wei Yongjun
2009-05-13  6:39             ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-13  6:39               ` Stephen Rothwell

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