Subject: Re: [patch next 3/4] netxen: fix bonding support

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:13:01 -0700

Dhananjay Phadke <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yes, this was a bug until recent times.
>
> It should be fixed in 2.6.32 development cycle by this commit -
> db4cfd8a6149e778befb2ff6e6f91cdc6394cbe6 ("netxen: handle firmware load errors").
>
> This added a check for adapter->is_up before touching txq lock.

Yes.  That should prevent the null pointer deference.  Will it also
allow setting the mac address when the NIC is down?

Eric