Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Problem Description: Kernel oops whenever bonding driver with max_bonds=2 
>> (or >
>> 2) is loaded ...

        I believe this is fixed by the following (from linux-2.6):

From: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:07:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bonding: fix NULL pointer deref in startup processing

        Fix the "are we creating a duplicate" check to not compare
the name if the name is NULL (meaning that the system should select
a name).  Bug reported by Benny Amorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 65c7eba..81b4574 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4896,14 +4896,16 @@ int bond_create(char *name, struct bond_params *params, 
struct bonding **newbond
        down_write(&bonding_rwsem);
 
        /* Check to see if the bond already exists. */
-       list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
-               if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
-                       printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
+       if (name) {
+               list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
+                       if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
+                               printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
                               ": cannot add bond %s; it already exists\n",
-                              name);
-                       res = -EPERM;
-                       goto out_rtnl;
-               }
+                                      name);
+                               res = -EPERM;
+                               goto out_rtnl;
+                       }
+       }
 
        bond_dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct bonding), name ? name : "",
                                ether_setup);
-- 
1.5.2.4

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