Re: [BUG] 2.6.32.21 bnx2_napi->hw_tx_cons_ptr NULL pointerdereference

[Michael Chan]

Shawn Bohrer wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:58:12PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 15:44 -0700, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > While testing 2.6.32.21 I had the following Oops occur on
> one of my
> > > machines:
> >
> > This has been fixed by this patch:
> >
> > commit 4327ba435a56ada13eedf3eb332e583c7a0586a9
> >
> >     bnx2: Fix netpoll crash.
> >
> > But it caused a regression which was later fixed by this patch:
> >
> > commit f048fa9c8686119c3858a463cab6121dced7c0bf
> >
> >     bnx2: Fix hang during rmmod bnx2.
> >
> > Both patches are in 2.6.34.2.  Thanks.
>
> Is there any reason these can't/shouldn't be applied to the 2.6.32.y
> stable series?  It looks like they apply cleanly.
>

No reason.  I just didn't know how far back to apply these patches.
The crash was triggered by changes in netpoll some time ago and
the problem has been present for some time.

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