netdev - Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:24:22 +0300
From:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman@...i.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?

Hello!

> Does this look sane (untested)?

It does not, unfortunately.

Instead of regular crash in infiniband you will get numerous
random NULL pointer dereferences both due to dst->neighbour
and due to dst->dev.

Alexey
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