On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 13:57 -0800, Himanshu Madhani wrote: > From: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch fixes crash due to NULL pointer access. > > Following stack trace will be seen. > > [1469877.797315] Call Trace: > [1469877.799940] [<ffffffffa03ab6e9>] qla2x00_mem_alloc+0xb09/0x10c0 [qla2xxx] > [1469877.806980] [<ffffffffa03ac50a>] qla2x00_probe_one+0x86a/0x1b50 [qla2xxx] > [1469877.814013] [<ffffffff813b6d01>] ? __pm_runtime_resume+0x51/0xa0 > [1469877.820265] [<ffffffff8157c1f5>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x25/0x90 > [1469877.826776] [<ffffffff8157cd2d>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x6d/0x80 > [1469877.833720] [<ffffffff810741d1>] ? preempt_count_sub+0xb1/0x100 > [1469877.839885] [<ffffffff8157cd0c>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4c/0x80 > [1469877.846830] [<ffffffff81319b9c>] local_pci_probe+0x4c/0xb0 > [1469877.852562] [<ffffffff810741d1>] ? preempt_count_sub+0xb1/0x100 > [1469877.858727] [<ffffffff81319c89>] pci_call_probe+0x89/0xb0 This patch needs a more detailed description. There are many changes in this patch. What changes are the changes that prevent the NULL pointer dereference? What changes (if any) were made as the result of code inspection? Bart.��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{������ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f