On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:51:31AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > Something like the patch below is necessary to fix a new NULL pointer deref > in usb_serial_probe() that appeared after the recent kfifo changes (in short, > the kfifo changes modified the semantics of kfifo_alloc() that > usb_serial_probe() reiled on). What semantic changed? I thought that the kfifo patches came with patches that also fixed up any changed that were needed. What went wrong here? Does your patch solve the oops? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html