Initialize local variable trans_support before it is used rather
than after. It is supposed to contain the value of a register on the
controller containing bits that describe which transport modes the
controller supports (e.g. "performant", "ioaccel1", "ioaccel2"). A
NULL pointer dereference wi
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:45:16AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> Your subject line is very tame. It should be the one line summary of
> why we apply the patch, so it should read something like
>
> hpsa: fix NULL deref in performant mode
>
> On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 17:17 -0500, scame...@beardog.
Without this, you'll see a null pointer dereference in
hpsa_enter_performant_mode().
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron
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drivers/scsi/hpsa.c |4
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index 8cf4a0c..ef4dfdd 100644
---
; > > 000e000d 001f 00120011 00040013
> > > Call Trace:
> > > [] ? SA5_fifo_full+0x20/0x20 [hpsa]
> > > [] ? SA5_ioaccel_mode1_completed+0xd0/0xd0 [hpsa]
> > > [] hpsa_put_ctlr_into_performant_mode+0x186/0x320
> > >
[] local_pci_probe+0x4c/0xb0
> > [] pci_call_probe+0x89/0xb0
> > [] ? pci_match_device+0xc4/0xd0
> > [] pci_device_probe+0x79/0xa0
> > [] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x82/0xb0
> > [] really_probe+0x6c/0x320
> > usb 1-1.6: New USB device found,
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:32:37PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 22:03 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Joerg, iommu list]
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 16:50 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 2014
