Hi. The following patch tries to avoid a potential null pointer dereference. It applies against 245-ac16 and 246p6. The dereference was originally reported by the Stanford team. --- linux-245-ac16-clean/drivers/media/video/i2c-parport.c Thu Jul 13 01:24:33 2000 +++ linux-245-ac16/drivers/media/video/i2c-parport.c Sun Jun 24 23:22:19 2001 @@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ { struct parport_i2c_bus *b = kmalloc(sizeof(struct parport_i2c_bus), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!b) { + printk(KERN_ERR __FUNCTION__ ": Memory allocation failed. Not attaching.\n"); + return; + } b->i2c = parport_i2c_bus_template; b->i2c.data = parport_get_port (port); strncpy(b->i2c.name, port->name, 32); -- Regards, Rasmus([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "A statesman... is a dead politician. Lord knows, we need more statesmen." -- Bloom County - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/