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Message-ID: <1360109904.2857.36.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2013 00:18:24 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
CC:	<linville@...driver.com>, <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix NULL dereference BUG when using
 new_id

On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 18:00 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> When the new_id entry is used for a foreign USB device, rtlwifi BUGS with
> a NULL pointer dereference.
[...]

So set no_dynamic_id in the usb_driver structures.

(But I wonder why USB behaves differently from PCI, which requires that
the dynamic ID's driver_data value (defaulting to 0) matches a value
used in a static ID entry.)

Ben.

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