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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ethdev: fix multi-process NULL
	dereference crashes
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:22:10 +0100
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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