Re: [stable] [BUG][PATCH] cpqphp: fix kernel NULL pointer dereference

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 17:37:20 EST


On Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:37 pm Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:33:34PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > * Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > The root cause of this problem seems that cpqphp driver calls
> > > pci_hp_register() wrongly. In current implementation, cpqphp driver
> > > passes 'ctrl->pci_dev->subordinate' as a second parameter for
> > > pci_hp_register(). But because hotplug slots and it's hotplug
> > > controller (exists as a pci funcion) are on the same bus, it should be
> > > 'ctrl->pci_dev->bus' instead.
> > >
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxx>
>
> This patch doesn't seem to have made it upstream.
>
> Jesse, is it queued up in any of your trees?

No I missed it initially. I've got it queued up now though.

Jesse
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