From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ixgbe: fix panic due to uninitialized pointer
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:56:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110211215645.GA11864@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297460747-31896-1-git-send-email-andy@greyhouse.net>
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:45:47PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> Systems containing an 82599EB and running a backported driver from
> upstream were panicing on boot. It turns out hw->mac.ops.setup_sfp is
> only set for 82599, so one should check to be sure that pointer is set
> before continuing in ixgbe_sfp_config_module_task. I verified by
> inspection that the upstream driver has the same issue and also added a
> check before the call in ixgbe_sfp_link_config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Corrected spelling error in Subject.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-11 21:45 [PATCH net-2.6] ixgbe: fix panic due to uninitialied pointer Andy Gospodarek
2011-02-11 21:56 ` Andy Gospodarek [this message]
2011-02-11 22:41 ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-02-11 22:47 ` Skidmore, Donald C
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