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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: fix crashing with ixgbe_vlan_filter_enable
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:35:19 -0700
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On 07/07/2010 04:31 PM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> happens with reboot or call kexec on system with ixgbe.
>>
>> [ 4912.773390] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
>> [ 4912.785756] IP: [<ffffffff81691600>]
>> ixgbe_vlan_filter_enable+0x74/0xda [ 4912.794084] PGD 10391a0067 PUD
>> 1022e3c067 PMD 0 [ 4912.805976] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
> There should be a patch in net-2.6 that fixes this issue:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa37813401ff52d78591c262d6542e4d5d935584

That fixes the problem.

Thanks

Yinghai