The DM9000 network driver is calling kfree() on an netdev
causing the system to oops if the probe fails. The right
thing to do is call free_netdev().

Thanks to Russell King for spotting this.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff -urpN -X ../dontdiff linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/dm9000.c 
linux-2.6.20-dmfix/drivers/net/dm9000.c
--- linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/dm9000.c   2007-02-04 18:44:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.20-dmfix/drivers/net/dm9000.c     2007-02-12 12:01:22.000000000 
+0000
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ dm9000_probe(struct platform_device *pde
        printk("%s: not found (%d).\n", CARDNAME, ret);
 
        dm9000_release_board(pdev, db);
-       kfree(ndev);
+       free_netdev(ndev);
 
        return ret;
 }
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ dm9000_drv_remove(struct platform_device
 
        unregister_netdev(ndev);
        dm9000_release_board(pdev, (board_info_t *) ndev->priv);
-       kfree(ndev);            /* free device structure */
+       free_netdev(ndev);              /* free device structure */
 
        PRINTK1("clean_module() exit\n");
 
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