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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2 v2] ATA: piix, fix pointer deref on suspend
Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> 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.

Oooops, I didn't Cced you to the last version, sorry for that.


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