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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)
commit29eb48d3a8934845377437632b231ecb061dfae7
treeb377e0790a0889110cf17a20470cc433b626336btree | snapshot
parent2282d1515bb7b659e103cee44b96653b45bcff1ccommit | 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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