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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"devel@openvz.org" <devel@openvz.org>,
	Michael Riesch <michael@riesch.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:42:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111107144204.GA344@cherladcori01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB7E5A2.2070407@openvz.org>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 06:05:22PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Richard Cochran wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:33:37PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> >>This patch fixes the bug added in commit v3.1-rc7-1055-gf9b491e
> >>SKB can be NULL at this point, at least for cdc-ncm.
> >
> >What? You mean .ndo_start_xmit is called with skb NULL?
> 
> no. cdc_ncm call usbnet_start_xmit with NULL skb from timer handler
> and tx_fixup hook pickup skb from internal context. yeah, it really messy.

You said it.

Can you please submit the fix suggested by Michael and myself?

Thanks,
Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-06 19:33 [PATCH] usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-11-07 13:29 ` Michael Riesch
2011-11-07 13:33 ` Richard Cochran
2011-11-07 14:05   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-11-07 14:42     ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2011-11-07 15:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-11-07 17:39   ` Richard Cochran
2011-11-07 18:26     ` David Miller

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