On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 10:45 +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> this protects against the following panic:
> (before a VF was actually created on p96p1 PF Ethernet port)
> ip link set p96p1 vf 0 spoofchk off
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> 0000000000000052
> IP: [<ffffffffa044a1c1>] ixgbe_ndo_set_vf_spoofchk+0x51/0x150 [ixgbe]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@6wind.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c |   73
> +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 70 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks for fixing that up Thierry.  I have added your patch to my queue.