Re: [BKPATCH] Fix for "Badness in kobject_get" (affected ieee1394)

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:50:41PM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 06:57, Ben Collins wrote:
> > This seems to have only affected ieee1394 because it uses
> > bus_for_each_dev in a particular (although correct) way.
> [...]
> > ChangeSet@xxxxxx, 2004-02-12 09:51:06-05:00, bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx
> >   [DRV/BASE]: Put checks in bus_for_each_{dev,drv} to make sure we don't go past the end of the list.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I applied this on top of 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 and it fixed my crash at
> boot problem.  I'll do more extensive testing of the 1394 subsystem
> later today.

After much discussion, Linus put together a cleaner more correct patch
which is in the latest bk.

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