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From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ethdev: fix multi-process NULL
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:02:56 +0000
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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