netdev - Re: [PATCH] ieee802154: Fix oops during ieee802154_sock

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Message-Id: <20100426.112056.48506797.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:20:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dbaryshkov@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stefan@...enfreihafen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee802154: Fix oops during ieee802154_sock_ioctl

From: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:46:42 +0400

> From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
> 
> Trying to run izlisten (from lowpan-tools tests) on a device that does not
> exists I got the oops below. The problem is that we are using get_dev_by_name
> without checking if we really get a device back. We don't in this case and
> writing to dev->type generates this oops.
> 
> [Oops code removed by Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]
> 
> If possible this patch should be applied to the current -rc fixes branch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>

Applied, and queued up for -stable too, thanks guys.
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