netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: Fix netpoll crash.

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Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:20:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: Fix netpoll crash.

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:13:11 -0800

> From: Benjamin Li <benli@...adcom.com>
> 
> The bnx2 driver calls netif_napi_add() for all the NAPI structs during
> ->probe() time but not all of them will be used if we're not in MSI-X
> mode.  This creates a problem for netpoll since it will poll all the
> NAPI structs in the dev_list whether or not they are scheduled, resulting
> in a crash when we access structure fields not initialized for that vector.
> 
> We fix it by moving the netif_napi_add() call to ->open() after the number
> of IRQ vectors has been determined.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Li <benli@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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