On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 11:58 +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>
> ---
> 
> v2:
>   compilation fixes
> 
> v3:
>   remove checks in functions where vfinfo is known not to be NULL
>   return -EINVAL as error code
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c |   42
> ++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks Thierry, I have added this patch to my queue (and dropped your
v2).