netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: thunder: Fix crash upon shutdown after failed probe

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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:27:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	p.fedin@...sung.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sgoutham@...ium.com, rric@...nel.org,
	youngmin.lee@...ium.com, kin-yip.liu@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: thunder: Fix crash upon shutdown after failed
 probe

From: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@...sung.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:22:26 +0300

> If device probe fails, driver remains bound to the PCI device. However,
> driver data has been reset to NULL. This causes crash upon dereferencing
> it in nicvf_remove()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@...sung.com>
> ---
> v1 => v2:
> - Do the test in nicvf_remove(), this allows to cover more situations

Please send me a relative fix on top of the other change, rather
than a complete replacement patch.
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