netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] via-ircc: Pass PCI device pointer to dma_{alloc,free}

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:13:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrewb@....com.au, samuel@...tiz.org,
	619450@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] via-ircc: Pass PCI device pointer to
 dma_{alloc,free}_coherent()

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:12:52 +0100

> via-ircc has been passing a NULL pointer to DMA allocation functions,
> which is completely invalid and results in a BUG on PowerPC.  Now
> that we always have the device pointer available, pass it in.
> 
> Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/619450
> Reported-by: Andrew Buckeridge <andrewb@....com.au>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Tested-by: Andrew Buckeridge <andrewb@....com.au> [against 2.6.32]

Applied.
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