netdev - Re: gianfar.c null pointer deref in gfar_start

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2011 01:54:07 -0500
From:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
To:	Sandeep Gopalpet <Sandeep.Kumar@...escale.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gianfar.c null pointer deref in gfar_start_xmit().

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 09:44:38PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> 
> While using the v3.0 kernel on a Freescale P1010RDB with 3 minor patches
> (None which affect gianfar.c), I get a NULL pointer deref at:
> 
> static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> {
> ...
> 	regs = tx_queue->grp->regs;
> 
> I put a BUG_ON(tx_queue->grp) just before this line and it did trip.
> I have not looked at this any more than that.
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome.   To reproduce, all I need to do is
> a few sequences of pings.

I was able to reproduce this with the net-next-2.6 kernel as well.

Robin
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