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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: NULL deref in bnx2 / crashes ? ( was: netconsole leads to
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:05:35 +0200
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On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 12:49 +0000, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 at 11:53 GMT, Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@whatever-company.com> wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > AFAICT, the following patch was never merged but I just confirmed that
> > I do need it over 3.6-rc5 for things to work properly.
> >
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> Eric, please resend your patch?
> 

Yes, but I have some worries of why it is needed.

Isnt it covering a bug elsewhere ?