Re: Is this bug too obvious?

[Daniel Barkalow]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c:
> 
> int
> usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod)
> {
>         struct usbnet                   *dev;
>         struct net_device               *net;
>         struct usb_host_interface       *interface;
>         struct driver_info              *info;
>         struct usb_device               *xdev;
>         int                             status;
> 
> 	...
> 
>         net = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*dev));
>                                     ^^^^
> 	                            *net ???

No, alloc_etherdev takes the size of the private data, which, in this 
case, is *dev.

	-Daniel
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