From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Subject: Re: igb patches needed for stable Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 09:59:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20140513095949.09333569@free-electrons.com> References: <20140410143603.3df4f20c@skate> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Pieper , Jeff Kirsher , netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller To: Christoph Paasch , Carolyn Wyborny Return-path: Received: from top.free-electrons.com ([176.31.233.9]:35791 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752928AbaEMH7w (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2014 03:59:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140410143603.3df4f20c@skate> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:36:03 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > I just wanted to let you know that the following two patches: > > cb06d102327eadcd1bdc480bfd9f8876251d1007 igb: Fix Null-pointer dereference in igb_reset_q_vector > b709323d2477614823a38c2f2a9a206e087e28fc igb: Unset IGB_FLAG_HAS_MSIX-flag when falling back to msi-only > > should probably be backported to stable 3.14 versions. The above > patches are part of Linus tree, but merged after v3.14 has been > released. However, they fix a regression introduced by cd14ef54d25b > (igb: Change to use statically allocated array for MSIx entries), which > is part of v3.14. > > And I'm actually experiencing a crash igb_reset_q_vector() on a system > which has MSI support, but not MSI-X support, and basically the code > path of the driver which fallbacks from MSI-X to MSI is the one > crashing. With both of these patches applied on top of 3.14, my igb NIC > works fine. Any news about these patches? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com