From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [net] ixgbevf: Fix panic when loading driver
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:57:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120717.025712.301877208665987955.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342518288-13522-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:44:48 -0700
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
>
> This patch addresses a kernel panic seen when setting up the interface.
> Specifically we see a NULL pointer dereference on the Tx descriptor cleanup
> path when enabling interrupts. This change corrects that so it cannot
> occur.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied, thanks Jeff.
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2012-07-17 9:44 [net] ixgbevf: Fix panic when loading driver Jeff Kirsher
2012-07-17 9:57 ` David Miller [this message]
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