From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:06:30 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: p54: fix oops caused by bad eeproms
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc3~23^2~47^2~11
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef15aa490f2e447ce04fe643500b814ef40f6ea9;p=pandora-kernel.git

p54: fix oops caused by bad eeproms

This patch fixes a bug that could occur, if it the eeprom is incomplete or partly corrupted.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008
IP: p54_assign_address+0x108/0x15d [p54common]
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
Pid: 12988, comm: phy1 Tainted: P        W  2.6.28-rc6-wl #3
RIP: 0010: p54_assign_address+0x108/0x15d [p54common]
 [...]
Call Trace:
 p54_alloc_skb+0xa3/0xc0 [p54common]
 p54_scan+0x37/0x204 [p54common]
 [...]

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

Reading git-diff-tree failed