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wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing fw_name string
authorPhil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:01:30 +0000 (09:01 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:51:19 +0000 (09:51 -0700)
commit589336f3c7731b608e860e984f753909b00efad7
treed6f9d44efe9adf07176a836b967c2201d99d6dbc
parent53288841cc5e7cb81b5980a46462d8a357bc3387
wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing fw_name string

[ Upstream commit 4eee6a3a04e8bb53fbe7de0f64d0524d3fbe3f80 ]

This happened on a machine with a custom hotplug script calling nameif,
probably due to slow firmware loading. At the time nameif uses ethtool
to gather interface information, i2400m->fw_name is zero and so a null
pointer dereference occurs from within i2400m_get_drvinfo().

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c