Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference at 00000000 -- IP: [<f8e783d5>] :b43:b43_dma_mapping_error+0x16/0x155

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Wed Jun 11 2008 - 06:05:58 EST


On Wednesday 11 June 2008 02:58:44 FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:50:26 +0200
> Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 16:42:41 Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > > This change comes from
> > >
> > > commit 353c409463ecba63c3a41a992d3f5fba935eada9
> > > Author: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Fri May 23 19:02:30 2008 +0000
> >
> >
> > Ok, FUJITA Tomonori, please make sure a patch like the following goes
> > into the same trees that you submitted commit 353c409 to.
> > Also make sure to check b43legacy. I _guess_ you might have added
> > the same bug there.
>
> Ah, sorry about the bug.
>
> From a quick look, mainline needs the same fix too?
>
> b43_dma_mapping_error calls unmap_descbuffer() on the failure, which
> assumes that ring->dev is set up properly.

Yeah ok. That's an unlikely error path.
The new bug is in the main path which will always trigger.

Next time please send _any_ patch for review to me and to the wireless list.
Please tell me which trees this bug has been merged to. Is it already in
Linus' tree?

--
Greetings Michael.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/