From: Corey Minyard Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI driver would occasionally result in Oopses. He tracked that down to a variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations. This patch initializes that variable. Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do that. Thanks Olaf! Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Cc: Olaf Kirch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-fix-occasional-oops-on-module-unload drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-fix-occasional-oops-on-module-unload +++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -3428,6 +3428,7 @@ struct ipmi_recv_msg *ipmi_alloc_recv_ms rv = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ipmi_recv_msg), GFP_ATOMIC); if (rv) { + rv->user = NULL; rv->done = free_recv_msg; atomic_inc(&recv_msg_inuse_count); } _