Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:37:34 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [Regression, 2.6.33-rc1->current git] NULL pointer in usb_serial_probe() introduced by the recent kfifo changes |
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:51:31AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > Something like the patch below is necessary to fix a new NULL pointer deref > in usb_serial_probe() that appeared after the recent kfifo changes (in short, > the kfifo changes modified the semantics of kfifo_alloc() that > usb_serial_probe() reiled on).
What semantic changed? I thought that the kfifo patches came with patches that also fixed up any changed that were needed. What went wrong here?
Does your patch solve the oops?
thanks,
greg k-h
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