[PATCH] uml: networking - clear transport-specific structure
authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:42:55 +0000 (17:42 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:20:21 +0000 (19:20 -0800)
commite56a78855a4f72fc658bfd21d08939dd6e09fa4c
treefcb56d8a23bad9824e72ef8fb26e688726061d9d
parentc42791b6ec5453cd7910eac7bfdd88f27173f81c
[PATCH] uml: networking - clear transport-specific structure

Pre-clear transport-specific private structure before passing it down.

In fact, I just got a slab corruption and kernel panic on exit because kfree()
was called on a pointer which probably was never allocated, BUT hadn't been
set to NULL by the driver.

As the code is full of such errors, I've decided for now to go the safe way
(we're talking about drivers), and to do the simple thing.  I'm also starting
to fix drivers, and already sent a patch for the daemon transport.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c