Re: cpqphp: NULL ptr deref in cpqhpc_probe

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 10 2010 - 19:22:20 EST


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:34:36PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> But I seriously think it's just time to rip this driver out of
> the tree. If anyone is actually using this driver to do hotplug,
> I will personally buy that person a full half-barrel of
> Colorado's finest microbrew of choice in order to numb the pain
> of making poor career decisions. Hell, we can drink it together,
> during which time I'll hack on the driver. The code surely can't
> get any worse.

A real user found this problem on their machine, so you might have to go
buy that barrel. Jiri has more details on that :)

Me, I gave the machine that had this hardware in it to osuosl.org a long
time ago, odds are, it's still being used by some group.

thanks,

greg k-h
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