On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:10:48AM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 21:37 -0800 schrieb Greg KH: > > 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? > > > > This one is a new user of the kfifo API, so it forget to port it to the > new kfifo API. > > Please make the write_fifo in place. Here is my patch to fix the > regression and full ported version. Thanks, I'll queue this up and send it to Linus later today. 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
