From linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk Wed Oct 14 10:17:11 2009 From: Darren Salt Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:19:22 +0100 Subject: Staging: rt2860sta: prevent a panic when disabling when associated To: gregkh@suse.de, stable@kernel.org Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <50AF4AEA98%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> This fixes a panic which is triggered when the hardware "disappears" from beneath the driver, i.e. when wireless is toggled off via Fn-F2 on various EeePC models. Ref. bug report http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390 panic http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=21928 Signed-off-by: Darren Salt Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rt2860/common/cmm_data_2860.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/staging/rt2860/common/cmm_data_2860.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rt2860/common/cmm_data_2860.c @@ -363,6 +363,8 @@ int RtmpPCIMgmtKickOut( ULONG SwIdx = pAd->MgmtRing.TxCpuIdx; pTxD = (PTXD_STRUC) pAd->MgmtRing.Cell[SwIdx].AllocVa; + if (!pTxD) + return 0; pAd->MgmtRing.Cell[SwIdx].pNdisPacket = pPacket; pAd->MgmtRing.Cell[SwIdx].pNextNdisPacket = NULL;