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stmmac: prevent probe drivers to crash kernel
authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:38:03 +0000 (18:38 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:24:30 +0000 (12:24 -0800)
commit9afec6efc6b1043692eada758cd7837623dd943b
treeb377e0790a0889110cf17a20470cc433b626336btree | snapshot
parent24e579c8898aa641ede3149234906982290934e5commit | diff
stmmac: prevent probe drivers to crash kernel

In the case when alloc_netdev fails we return NULL to a caller. But there is no
check for NULL in the probe drivers. This patch changes NULL to an error
pointer. The function description is amended to reflect what we may get
returned.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c diff | blob | history
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