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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/tg3: Fix kernel crash
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:28:36 -0700 (PDT)
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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>
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> Acked-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@broadcom.com>

Applied.