netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/7] sfc: Clear I2C adapter structure in falcon_remove

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Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:55:32 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] sfc: Clear I2C adapter structure in
 falcon_remove_nic()

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:53:02 +0000

> i2c_del_adapter() leaves dangling pointers in the structure.  If we
> retry the NIC probe and pass the structure to i2c_add_adapter() again
> it will lead to an oops unless we clear it first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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