On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:24:36PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> The oops is a dereference of fffffff0 in base/bus.c:driver_attach().
> I have seen several such oopses lately, various places in the kernel.
> The cause here is a NULL pointer that is turned into fffffff0 by
> container_of() and then fed to get_device(). And get_device() tests
> that it gets a non-NULL pointer, but that does not protect against
> fffffff0.
Just as an anecdote - I built a variant of container_of to protect against
cases where NULL can creep in:
#define test_container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__p = (ptr); \
__p ? container_of(__p, type, member) : NULL;})
It calls the real container_of only if 'ptr' is not NULL.
-Kevin
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