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From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ethdev: fix multi-process NULL
	dereference crashes
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:01:02 +0000
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On 11/01/2017 14:22, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2017-01-11 02:42, Remy Horton:
>> Even though only primary processes should setup PMDs, secondary
>> processes were also blanket zeroing ethernet device memory. The
>> result was NULL dereference crashes in multi-process setups.
>> Fixes: 7f95f78a8aea ("ethdev: clear data when allocating device")
>
> I think it can be fixed by this patch:
>
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-January/054220.html

Close call - really depends how the (likley) merge conflict is resolved...

..Remy