From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nsujir@broadcom.com
Cc: shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mchan@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/tg3: Fix kernel crash
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:28:36 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130726.142836.1125568759731631815.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51EFC840.4010307@broadcom.com>
From: "Nithin Nayak Sujir" <nsujir@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 05:27:44 -0700
> On 7/24/2013 2:25 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> While EEH error happens, we might not have network device instance
>> (struct net_device) yet. So we can't access the instance safely and
>> check its link state, which causes kernel crash. The patch fixes it.
...
>> Reported-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
...
> Acked-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@broadcom.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-26 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-24 9:25 [PATCH 1/2] net/tg3: Fix kernel crash Gavin Shan
2013-07-24 9:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] net/tg3: Fix warning from pci_disable_device() Gavin Shan
2013-07-24 12:27 ` Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-07-26 21:28 ` David Miller
2013-07-24 12:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] net/tg3: Fix kernel crash Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-07-26 21:28 ` David Miller [this message]
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