netdev - Re: NULL pointer dereference panic in stable (2.6.33.2), amd64

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Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:37:10 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Denys Fedorysychenko <nuclearcat@...learcat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference panic in stable (2.6.33.2), amd64

Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 12:11 +0300, Denys Fedorysychenko a écrit :
> Btw i have application using tun.

Could you add following sanity test to catch the error ?

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index fa8b476..b67274a 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ static inline
 struct netdev_queue *netdev_get_tx_queue(const struct net_device *dev,
 					 unsigned int index)
 {
+	WARN_ON(index >= dev->num_tx_queues);
 	return &dev->_tx[index];
 }
 


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