Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:34:05 +0100 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] ATA: piix, fix pointer deref on suspend |
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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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