From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4: check iboe netdev pointer before dereferencing it Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:49:02 +0300 Message-ID: <502743CE.2070502@mellanox.com> References: <1344623134-22600-1-git-send-email-klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1344623134-22600-1-git-send-email-klebers-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Roland Dreier , cascardo-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org, brking-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 10/08/2012 21:25, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote: > This patch fixes the problem by checking for a valid netdev pointer > before using it to get the port MAC address. just curious, how did you actually stepped on this, code inspection or any actual race? Or. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html