This patch fixes a bug that could occur, if it the eeprom is incomplete or partly corrupted.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008
IP: p54_assign_address+0x108/0x15d [p54common]
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
Pid: 12988, comm: phy1 Tainted: P W 2.6.28-rc6-wl #3
RIP: 0010: p54_assign_address+0x108/0x15d [p54common]
[...]
Call Trace:
p54_alloc_skb+0xa3/0xc0 [p54common]
p54_scan+0x37/0x204 [p54common]
[...]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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