From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: shawn.bohrer@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.32.21 bnx2_napi->hw_tx_cons_ptr NULL pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:58:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100908.215809.232892441.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C27F8246C663564A84BB7AB3439772421B9134BA2E@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:55:29 -0700
> Shawn Bohrer wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason these can't/shouldn't be applied to the 2.6.32.y
>> stable series? It looks like they apply cleanly.
>>
>
> No reason. I just didn't know how far back to apply these patches.
> The crash was triggered by changes in netpoll some time ago and
> the problem has been present for some time.
Michael, please submit these to -stable then, thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-09 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 22:44 [BUG] 2.6.32.21 bnx2_napi->hw_tx_cons_ptr NULL pointer dereference Shawn Bohrer
2010-09-08 22:58 ` Michael Chan
2010-09-09 1:34 ` Shawn Bohrer
2010-09-09 4:55 ` Michael Chan
2010-09-09 4:58 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-23 18:40 ` [stable] " Greg KH
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