Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Fix Oops on reboot when SRIOV VFs are probed into the Host

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 20:41:31 +0400

Hello.

On 06/01/2014 02:49 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:

> From: Jack Morgenstein <[email-masked]>

> Commit befdf89 did not take into account the case where the Host

    Please also specify that commit's summary line in parens.

> driver is being unloaded. In this case, pci_get_drvdata for the VF
> remove_one call may return NULL, so that dereferencing the priv
> struct results in a kernel oops.

> The fix is to also test that the dev pointer returned by
> pci_get_drvdata is non-NULL.

> Fixes: befdf89 ("preserve pcd_dev_data after __mlx4_remove_one()")
> Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <[email-masked]>

WBR, Sergei