From: Valentine Barshak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The patch moves dev_set_drvdata(&ofdev->dev, dev) up before tah_reset(ofdev)
is called to avoid a NULL pointer dereference, since tah_reset uses drvdata.
Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff -pruN linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/tah.c
linux-2.6/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/tah.c
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/tah.c 2007-11-23
21:27:57.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/tah.c 2007-11-23 21:35:12.000000000
+0300
@@ -116,13 +116,14 @@ static int __devinit tah_probe(struct of
goto err_free;
}
+ dev_set_drvdata(&ofdev->dev, dev);
+
/* Initialize TAH and enable IPv4 checksum verification, no TSO yet */
tah_reset(ofdev);
printk(KERN_INFO
"TAH %s initialized\n", ofdev->node->full_name);
wmb();
- dev_set_drvdata(&ofdev->dev, dev);
return 0;
-
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