netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: init ingress queue

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Date:	Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:36:03 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: init ingress queue

Changli Gao wrote:
> The dev field of ingress queue is forgot to initialized, then NULL
> pointer dereference happens in qdisc_alloc().
> 
> Move inits of tx queues to netif_alloc_netdev_queues().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
> ---
> v2: factorize the two inits in netdev_init_queues() and move inits of
>     tx queues to netif_alloc_netdev_queues().
>  net/core/dev.c |   35 +++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index cd24374..4a7fc32 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c

I guess you should mention it's net-next problem, because some people
might be unnecessarily concerned (why they don't have such an oops ;-)

Jarek P.
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