Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 net-next] IB/ipoib: Fix ndo_get_iflink

From: Doug Ledford <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:37:02 -0400

On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 12:21 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Haggai Eran <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > On 17/04/2015 22:21, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Erez Shitrit <[email-masked]>
> >> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:34:34 +0300
> >>
> >>> Currently, iflink of the parent interface was always accessed, even
> >>> when interface didn't have a parent and hence we crashed there.
> >>>
> >>> Handle the interface types properly: for a child interface, return
> >>> the ifindex of the parent, for parent interface, return its ifindex.
> >>>
> >>> For child devices, make sure to set the parent pointer prior to
> >>> invoking register_netdevice(), this allows the new ndo to be called
> >>> by the stack immediately after the child device is registered.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: 5aa7add8f14b ('infiniband/ipoib: implement ndo_get_iflink')
> >>> Reported-by: Honggang Li <[email-masked]>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <[email-masked]>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Honggang Li <[email-masked]>
> >>
> >> Applied, thanks.
> >
> > Doug, Roland,
> > You might want to include this patch in your for-next / for-4.1 trees,
> > or merge net-next again. Currently they contain the issue it fixes, and
> > it can prevent some systems with IPoIB from booting.
> 
> Haggai,
> 
> 
> It's upstream by now, pull Linus tree.
> 
> Or.

Right, it already went via net-next.  I skipped it because of that.

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