Fix for crash on card removal
Jouni Malinen
jkmaline
Thu Jul 10 07:05:08 PDT 2003
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:47:20PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Using AccessConfigurationRegister is unsafe is the card has been removed.
> There is a long-standing bug in the PCMCIA drivers that causes a kernel
> oops. This bug was been patched in pcmcia-cs, but it's still present in
> the kernel PCMCIA drivers (both 2.4.x and 2.5.x).
>
> I have just sent a patch to LKML, but I think it's a good idea to put
> protection into the HostAP driver itself, especially because it's
> reasonable and simple.
Thanks. This ended up waiting long time in my mail queue, but it is now
finally applied.
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