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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ethdev: fix multi-process NULL
	dereference crashes
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:31:57 +0100
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2017-01-25 14:02, Remy Horton:
> 
> On 24/01/2017 15:01, Remy Horton wrote:
> > Secondary processes were blanket zeroing ethernet device memory,
> > resulting in NULL dereference crashes in multi-process setups.
> >
> > Fixes: 7f95f78a8aea ("ethdev: clear data when allocating device")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
> 
> Self-NAK: Condition is now tautology on code path that was causing crashes

What do you mean exactly?