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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Possible VIA-Rhine free irq issue
Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems to me that in the VIA Rhine device driver the requested irq might
> not be freed in case the alloc_ring() function fails. alloc_ring()
> can fail with a ENOMEM return value because of possible
> pci_alloc_consistent() failures.
>
> This patch applies to 2.6.11-rc5-bk2.
>
> diff -uprN linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2/drivers/net/via-rhine.c linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2-pi/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
> --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2/drivers/net/via-rhine.c 2005-02-28 13:44:37.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2-pi/drivers/net/via-rhine.c 2005-02-28 13:44:31.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1198,7 +1198,10 @@ static int rhine_open(struct net_device
>
> rc = alloc_ring(dev);
> if (rc)
> + {
> + free_irq(rp->pdev->irq, dev);
> return rc;
> + }

Yes, this is a needed fix. Thanks,

Jeff



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