linux-kernel - Re: cpqphp: NULL ptr deref in cpqhpc

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:19:19 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...onical.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: cpqphp: NULL ptr deref in cpqhpc_probe

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:34:36PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> But I seriously think it's just time to rip this driver out of
> the tree. If anyone is actually using this driver to do hotplug,
> I will personally buy that person a full half-barrel of
> Colorado's finest microbrew of choice in order to numb the pain
> of making poor career decisions. Hell, we can drink it together,
> during which time I'll hack on the driver. The code surely can't
> get any worse.

A real user found this problem on their machine, so you might have to go
buy that barrel.  Jiri has more details on that :)

Me, I gave the machine that had this hardware in it to osuosl.org a long
time ago, odds are, it's still being used by some group.

thanks,

greg k-h
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