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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
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] BNX2: fix a Null Pointer for stats_blk
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:34:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150923.223436.53190852255282400.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5603594D.70408@huawei.com>

From: Weidong Wang <wangweidong1@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:00:45 +0800

> It does affect the intention. Although, the problem exists then makes the
> system panic within some case.
> 
> Do you have any idea about it?

Allocate the statistics block at probe time so that this problem is
impossible.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-24  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 12:42 Weidong Wang
2015-09-23 22:31 ` David Miller
2015-09-24  2:00   ` Weidong Wang
2015-09-24  5:34     ` David Miller [this message]
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
2015-10-08 10:03       ` [PATCH net-next v3] " Weidong Wang
2015-10-11 12:07         ` David Miller

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