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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: wangweidong1@huawei•com
Cc: sony.chacko@qlogic•com, Dept-HSGLinuxNICDev@qlogic•com,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	rui.xiang@huawei•com, manish.chopra@qlogic•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 RESEND] BNX2: fix a Null Pointer for stats_blk
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:10:11 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150929.211011.677113057504126372.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560A02FA.6030309@huawei.com>

From: Weidong Wang <wangweidong1@huawei•com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:18:18 +0800

> @@ -839,11 +828,12 @@ bnx2_free_mem(struct bnx2 *bp)
>  }
> 
>  static int
> -bnx2_alloc_mem(struct bnx2 *bp)
> +bnx2_alloc_stats_blk(struct net_device *dev)
>  {
> -	int i, status_blk_size, err;
> +	int i, status_blk_size;
>  	struct bnx2_napi *bnapi;
>  	void *status_blk;
> +	struct bnx2 *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
> 
>  	/* Combine status and statistics blocks into one allocation. */
>  	status_blk_size = L1_CACHE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct status_block));

This function is not just allocating the stats block, it's allocating
a whole bunch of other things too.

Only allocate the stats block at probe time, not the NAPI et al. stuff
as well.  That can safely stay in the open/close paths.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 12:42 [PATCH net-next] BNX2: fix a Null Pointer for stats_blk Weidong Wang
2015-09-23 22:31 ` David Miller
2015-09-24  2:00   ` Weidong Wang
2015-09-24  5:34     ` David Miller
2015-09-24  6:53       ` Weidong Wang
2015-09-28  7:01 ` [PATCH net-next v2] " Weidong Wang
2015-09-29  3:15   ` Weidong Wang
2015-09-29  3:18   ` [PATCH net-next v2 RESEND] " Weidong Wang
2015-09-30  4:10     ` David Miller [this message]
2015-10-08 10:03       ` [PATCH net-next v3] " Weidong Wang
2015-10-11 12:07         ` David Miller

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