netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] bnx2x: fix a crash on corrupt firmware file

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eilong@...adcom.com
Cc:	mschmidt@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, yuvalmin@...adcom.com,
	yanivr@...adcom.com, dmitry@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] bnx2x: fix a crash on corrupt firmware file

From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:24:09 +0200

> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 01:08 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
>> If the requested firmware is deemed corrupt and then released, reset the
>> pointer to NULL in order to avoid double-freeing it in
>> bnx2x_release_firmware() or dereferencing it in bnx2x_init_firmware().
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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