On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 18:35:21 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:05:20 +0200 > Florian Mickler <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > dvb_usb_device_init calls the frontend_attach method of this driver which > > uses vp7045_usb_ob. In order to have a buffer ready in vp7045_usb_op, it has to > > be allocated before that happens. > > > > Luckily we can use the whole private data as the buffer as it gets separately > > allocated on the heap via kzalloc in dvb_usb_device_init and is thus apt for > > use via usb_control_msg. > > > > This fixes a > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001e78 > > > > reported by Tino Keitel and diagnosed by Dan Carpenter. > > > > References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40062 > > Cc: v3.0.y <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Tested-by: Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@xxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > ...ping... Even pinger. I can't see the patch in 3.1 git yet, and I'm using the patch on 3.0 kernels for 2 weeks now without problems. Regards, Tino -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
