From: Bill Nottingham <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:24:05 -0400

> The driver comments show an initialization sequence of:
>  * i2400m_setup()
>  *   i2400m->bus_setup()
>  *   i2400m_bootrom_init()
>  *   register_netdev()
>  *   wimax_dev_add()
>  *   i2400m_dev_start()
>  *     __i2400m_dev_start()
>  *       i2400m_dev_bootstrap()
> 
> dev_bootstrap() is where the firmware is loaded. So, if something calls
> get_drvinfo() from a register_netdevice_notifier (such as the cnic driver),
> we won't have a firmware name, and strncpy will crash.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808603
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[email protected]>

Already fixed in current sources.
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