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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 01:07:00 +0200 From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> Cc: Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: fix setting driver_data after register_netdev Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> : > pci_set_drvdata() is called only after registering the net_device, > therefore we could run into a NPE if one of the functions using > driver_data is called before it's set. > > Fix this by calling pci_set_drvdata() before registering the > net_device. > > This fix is a candidate for stable. As far as I can see the > bug has been there in kernel version 3.2 already, therefore > I can't provide a reference which commit is fixed by it. It does not sound convincing. Please tell which functions are supposed to crash. Suspend / resume ones ? Anything else ? -- Ueimor
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