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

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Message-ID: <20070319093315.GA15909@mellanox.co.il>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:33:15 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il>,
	"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?

> Quoting Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?
> 
> > 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.

Right, I saw this clearly in the morning. Thanks.

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MST
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