Kernel Panic is observed with a Qlogic 2472 Card is plugged into the
system and the qla2xxx driver is loaded:

QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.01.02.11.0-k9
vendor=8086 device=3410
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 40 (level, low) -> IRQ 40
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: Found an ISP2432, irq 40, iobase
0xffffc2001091c000
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: Configuring PCI space...
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000000
IP: [<ffffffff8036319a>] strncpy+0x5/0x1e
PGD 7c564067 PUD 78d8c067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.1/input/input4/event
4/dev
CPU 1
Modules linked in: qla2xxx(+) squashfs usb_storage scsi_transport_fc
scsi_tgt parport_pc parport arc4 ecb crypto_blkcipher acpi_cpufreq fan
loop nfs nfs_acl lockd sunrpc nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 ipv6 af_packet st
sr_mod ide_disk ide_cd_mod ide_core cdrom usbhid hid ff_memless sg
sd_mod crc_t10dif uhci_hcd mptsas mptscsih ehci_hcd mptbase
scsi_transport_sas rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib usbcore scsi_mod thermal
bnx2 button processor thermal_sys hwmon edd
Supported: Yes
Pid: 4415, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.27.13-1-default #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8036319a>] [<ffffffff8036319a>] strncpy+0x5/0x1e
RSP: 0018:ffff88007b04fbc0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 00000000000000b7 RBX: ffff88007b9641e0 RCX: ffff88007c1b2ad7
RDX: 000000000000004f RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88007c1b2ad7
RBP: ffff88007c1b0620 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000100000000
R10: 0000000000000046 R11: ffffffff803651c6 R12: ffff88007b074000
R13: ffff88007b964000 R14: ffff88007c1b2ac6 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f91a6c366f0(0000) GS:ffff88007dbeee40(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000007bd7c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process insmod (pid: 4415, threadinfo ffff88007b04e000, task
ffff880078586180)
Stack: ffffffffa02d82c4 0000000000002432 ffff88007d385000
ffff88007c1b0620
ffff88007c1b0620 ffff88007c1b0000 ffff88007d385000 0000000000002432
ffffffffa02dcb1e 0000000000002432 ffffc2001091c000 ffff88007c1b0620
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa02d82c4>] qla24xx_nvram_config+0x385/0x6c2 [qla2xxx]
[<ffffffffa02dcb1e>] qla2x00_initialize_adapter+0x169/0x383 [qla2xxx]
[<ffffffffa02f2040>] qla2x00_probe_one+0x6bc/0x9c6 [qla2xxx]
[<ffffffff8037346f>] pci_device_probe+0xb8/0x105
[<ffffffff803e5a27>] really_probe+0xdd/0x1e5
[<ffffffff803e5c14>] __driver_attach+0x46/0x6d
[<ffffffff803e51e1>] bus_for_each_dev+0x44/0x78
[<ffffffff803e4ac7>] bus_add_driver+0xef/0x235
[<ffffffff803e5dd8>] driver_register+0xa2/0x11f
[<ffffffff803736fd>] __pci_register_driver+0x5d/0x90
[<ffffffffa0308126>] qla2x00_module_init+0x126/0x159 [qla2xxx]
[<ffffffff80209041>] _stext+0x41/0x110
[<ffffffff80260abd>] sys_init_module+0xa0/0x1ba
[<ffffffff8020bfbb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<00007f91a679b76a>] 0x7f91a679b76a
Code: ff c1 41 39 c0 75 05 45 85 c0 75 bf 41 29 c0 44 89 c0 c3 31 d2 8a
04 16 88 04 17 48 ff c2 84 c0 75 f3 48 89 f8 c3 48 89 f9 eb 10 <8a> 06
3c 01 88 01 48 83 de ff 48 ff c1 48 ff ca 48 85 d2 75 eb
RIP [<ffffffff8036319a>] strncpy+0x5/0x1e
RSP <ffff88007b04fbc0>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 829d7d78dfafb785 ]---

The attached patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Shyam Iyer <shyam_iyer@dell.com>
Acked-by: Seokmann Ju <Seokmann.ju@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>