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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc5] ehea: fix invalid pointer access
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:11:27 +0100
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Hannes Hering <hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

>  	pref = skb_array[x];
> -	prefetchw(pref);
> -	prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
> +	if (pref) {
> +		prefetchw(pref);
> +		prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);

Ummm...  Is prefetch() or prefetchw() faulting?

David