From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sbhatewara@vmware.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vmxnet3: set netdev parant device before calling netdev_info
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:34:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110721.213431.1027869707534665048.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1107201834220.19334@sbhatewara-dev1.eng.vmware.com>
From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Parent device for netdev should be set before netdev_info() can be called
> otherwise there is a NULL pointer dereference and probe() fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-22 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-21 2:01 [PATCH net-next] vmxnet3: set netdev parant device before calling netdev_info Shreyas Bhatewara
2011-07-21 3:06 ` [Pv-drivers] " Scott Goldman
2011-07-21 3:49 ` Joe Perches
2011-07-21 4:05 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2011-07-22 4:34 ` David Miller [this message]
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