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Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:13:25 +0000
From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org
Subject: [PATCH] DM9000: fix use of kfree() on net device
The DM9000 network driver is calling kfree() on an netdev
causing the system to oops if the probe fails. The right
thing to do is call free_netdev().
Thanks to Russell King for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
diff -urpN -X ../dontdiff linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/dm9000.c linux-2.6.20-dmfix/drivers/net/dm9000.c
--- linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/dm9000.c 2007-02-04 18:44:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.20-dmfix/drivers/net/dm9000.c 2007-02-12 12:01:22.000000000 +0000
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ dm9000_probe(struct platform_device *pde
printk("%s: not found (%d).\n", CARDNAME, ret);
dm9000_release_board(pdev, db);
- kfree(ndev);
+ free_netdev(ndev);
return ret;
}
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ dm9000_drv_remove(struct platform_device
unregister_netdev(ndev);
dm9000_release_board(pdev, (board_info_t *) ndev->priv);
- kfree(ndev); /* free device structure */
+ free_netdev(ndev); /* free device structure */
PRINTK1("clean_module() exit\n");
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