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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] bnxt: Fix a segfault encountered during
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:24:16 +0100
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On 9/29/2016 8:06 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com
> <mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com>>wrote:
> 
>     On 9/29/2016 6:03 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
>     > The bnxt PMD is running into a segfault when exiting out of KNI
> 
>     KNI?
> 
> examples/kni
> 
> ​On closing the kni app, I am seeing a segfault.​ because of improper
> cleanup of resources
> in the dev_uninit path.

So this is mainly related to driver exit, KNI app is just a way to
reproduce it.

Are you OK with following update in commit log:

"
net/bnxt: fix a segfault encountered during PMD exit

This patch fixes segfault encountered during dev_uninit/close routine.
KNI sample app can be used to reproduce the issue.
"