On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:00:36PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > While doing insert/remove (quickly) tests on USB, I managed to trigger > an Oops on 2.6.23.1 on the call to strlen() in make_class_name(). > > This patch prevents this oops. > > There is still the larger problem of the overall race > that caused this in the first place, but much of the rest > of the code in class.c appears to also do NULL checks to > avoid Oops'ing, so this continues the tradition. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As this is a bandage over the real problem, I'd prefer to not apply this one right now until we find the root cause. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
