From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:54:00 +0200
> Some drivers (ab)use the ethtool_ops::get_regs operation to expose
> only a hardware revision ID. Commit
> a77f5db361ed9953b5b749353ea2c7fed2bf8d93 ('ethtool: Allocate register
> dump buffer with vmalloc()') had the side-effect of breaking these, as
> vmalloc() returns a null pointer for size=0 whereas kmalloc() did not.
>
> For backward-compatibility, allow zero-length dumps again.
>
> Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx [2.6.37+]
Applied to net-next-2.6, I left the CC: stable tag in there so
-stable will pick it up once it hits Linus's tree during the
merge window.
Thanks.
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