netdev - Re: [PATCH v1] stmmac: prevent probe drivers to crash kernel

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Message-Id: <20150127.122445.923392803091632565.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:24:45 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com
Cc:	peppe.cavallaro@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] stmmac: prevent probe drivers to crash kernel

From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:38:03 +0200

> In the case when alloc_netdev fails we return NULL to a caller. But there is no
> check for NULL in the probe drivers. This patch changes NULL to an error
> pointer. The function description is amended to reflect what we may get
> returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

Applied, thank you.
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