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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netback: don't store invalid vif pointer
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:08:25 +0000
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On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 11:47 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> When xenvif_alloc() fails, it returns a non-NULL error indicator. To
> avoid eventual races, we shouldn't store that into struct backend_info
> as readers of it only check for NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

Thanks.