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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>,
	todd.fujinaka@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux.nics@intel.com, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 in linux-3.18.0: a potential bug
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:27:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54957956.30803@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000d01d01c29$a9edb870$fdc92950$@163.com>

Hello.

On 12/20/2014 10:50 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:

> I have actually tested e1000 driver on the real hardware(Intel 82540EM PCI
> Gigabit Ethernet Controller), and find a potential bug:
> The target file is drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c, which is
> used to build e1000.ko.

> (1) In the normal process, netif_napi_add is called in e1000_probe, but
> netif_napi_del is not called in e1000_remove. However, many other ethernet
> card drivers call them in pairs, even in the error handling paths, such as
> r8169 and igb.

> Meanwhile, I also write the patch to fix the bug. I have run the patch on
> the hardware, it can work normally and fix the above bug.

    You didn't sign off on your patch, so it can't be applied.

WBR, Sergei

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-20 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-20  7:50 [PATCH] e1000 in linux-3.18.0: a potential bug Jia-Ju Bai
2014-12-20 10:34 ` [linux-nics] " Jeff Kirsher
     [not found]   ` <79ea17da.119c.14a67bcadd1.Coremail.baijiaju1990@163.com>
2014-12-20 12:49     ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-12-20 13:27 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-12-20 13:57 Jia-Ju Bai
2014-12-20 14:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov

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