[ofa-general] Re: [PATCHv2] IB/mthca: fix use-after-free
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Thu May 17 11:40:22 PDT 2007
Thanks, applied.
> Previous version would do NULL-pointer dereference
> if pci_get_drvdata returns NULL. BTW, when does this happen?
I'm not positive why that check is there -- it dates back to Jack's
original device restart patch.
But I guess it's at least conceivable that an HCA is hot-unplugged
after a catastrophic error but before the restart task runs.
- R.
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