Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:27:12 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] ATA: piix, fix pointer deref on suspend |
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:52:28 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit > ata_piix: add borked Tecra M4 to broken suspend list > introduced DMI variables checking, but they can be null, so that > we possibly dereference null. > > Check if they are null and avoid checks in that case. > > Solves: > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 > IP: [<ffffffff8043da97>] piix_pci_device_suspend+0x117/0x230
This already got fixed, the nasty way.
I queued "DMI: add dmi_match". We can later switch the piix nastyfix over to the nicefix as a cleanup.
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