netdev - Re: kernel BUG at drivers/net/phy/mdio

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Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:24:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	khc@...waw.pl
Cc:	buytenh@...tstofly.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:165!

From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:29:46 +0100

> kernel BUG at drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:165!
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> 
> How?
> 
> mdiobus_alloc() sets bus->state = MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED.
> 
> mdiobus_register() sets bus->state = MDIOBUS_REGISTERED but then can
>    fail (mdiobus_scan()) returning an error to the caller.
> 
> The caller aborts correctly with mdiobus_free() which does:
>         if (bus->state == MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED) {
>                 kfree(bus);
>                 return;
>         }
> 
>         BUG_ON(bus->state != MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>

Looks great, applied.

Thanks for fixing this bug Krzysztof.
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