Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:36:00 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: tg3: unable to handle null pointer dereference | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:57:13 -0700
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 14:40 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > 2.6.21-rc5 is ok. 2.6.21-rc6 results in > > > > [ 14.241665] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address 0000000000000000) > > Sorry, I think this should fix it: > > [TG3]: Fix crash during tg3_init_one(). > > The driver will crash when the chip has been initialized by EFI before > tg3_init_one(). In this case, the driver will call tg3_chip_reset() > before allocating consistent memory. > > The bug is fixed by checking for tp->hw_status before accessing it > during tg3_chip_reset(). > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
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