[PATCH] fwip(4) panic on attach

[Christian Brueffer]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:14:00AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Christian Brueffer wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >in CURRENT and RELENG_6 I get a reproducible panic with fwip(4) when
> >plugging in my firewire cardbus card.  The following patch fixes it,
> >but I'm not sure if it's correct.
> >
> >The interface works after applying the patch.
> >
> >Index: if_fwip.c
> >===================================================================
> >RCS file: /data/ncvs/freebsd/src/sys/dev/firewire/if_fwip.c,v
> >retrieving revision 1.7
> >diff -u -r1.7 if_fwip.c
> >--- if_fwip.c   10 Jun 2005 16:49:08 -0000      1.7
> >+++ if_fwip.c   31 Jul 2005 14:01:52 -0000
> >@@ -171,11 +171,13 @@
> > 
> >        fwip = ((struct fwip_softc *)device_get_softc(dev));
> >        unit = device_get_unit(dev);
> >+       
> >+       bzero(fwip, sizeof(struct fwip_softc));
> >+
> >        ifp = fwip->fw_softc.fwip_ifp = if_alloc(IFT_IEEE1394);
> >        if (ifp == NULL)
> >                return (ENOSPC);
> > 
> >-       bzero(fwip, sizeof(struct fwip_softc));
> >        /* XXX */
> >        fwip->dma_ch = -1;
> >
> 
> I thought the softc was guaranteed to be zero'd; can't you just delete 
> the bzero?
> 

That was the other option I was considering and is also works.  I wasn't
sure about it though, so I left it in.

There's a similar bzero() call in if_fwe.c that should be removed then.

- Christian

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