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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:35:33 -0800 (PST)
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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:04:31 +0000

> A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
> an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
> pointer before checking for NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks Jarek.