Dave, Here is a NULL pointer avoidance fix for iwlwifi that would be nice to have in 2.6.24 if possible. Thanks! John --- Individual patch available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/fixes --- The following changes since commit 889c94a14e38e749c8060f597ee7825ea0764229: Johann Felix Soden (1): Fix file references in documentation and Kconfig are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git fixes Reinette Chatre (1): iwlwifi: fix possible read attempt on ucode that is not available drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c index 1a6b0e0..0b3ec7e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c @@ -6342,6 +6342,11 @@ static int __iwl_up(struct iwl_priv *priv) return 0; } + if (!priv->ucode_data_backup.v_addr || !priv->ucode_data.v_addr) { + IWL_ERROR("ucode not available for device bringup\n"); + return -EIO; + } + iwl_write32(priv, CSR_INT, 0xFFFFFFFF); rc = iwl_hw_nic_init(priv); diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c index 6cd57c2..15a45f4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c @@ -6698,6 +6698,11 @@ static int __iwl_up(struct iwl_priv *priv) return 0; } + if (!priv->ucode_data_backup.v_addr || !priv->ucode_data.v_addr) { + IWL_ERROR("ucode not available for device bringup\n"); + return -EIO; + } + iwl_write32(priv, CSR_INT, 0xFFFFFFFF); rc = iwl_hw_nic_init(priv); -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
