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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] garp: fix a NULL pointer dereference bug
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:55:55 +0800
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On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 21:26 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> Nope this patch doesnt solve the problem
> 
> Crash is in :
> 
> 49 8b 1c c6             mov    (%r14,%rax,8),%rbx 
> 
> Thats because r14 (port) is NULL
> 
> 
> 

Hmm, but I can't see how it can be NULL, the only place of NULL'ing it
is inside garp_release_port(), right after the piece of code that I
patched.

Thanks!