netdev - Re: [PATCH] fix potential wild pointer when NIC is dying

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Message-ID: <m2m412e6f7f1004132124y9ff2eeddwa2bbcaaa5d1f894f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:24:22 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix potential wild pointer when NIC is dying

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 20:18 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
>> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
>> index a10a216..fe4a821 100644
>> --- a/net/core/dev.c
>> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> []
>> -static void flush_backlog(void *arg)
>> +static int flush_backlog(void *arg)
>
> Why change this to return int?
>
>> +     return 0;
>
> It seems to always return 0.
>
>

Keep stop_machine() happy.
int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);

-- 
Regards，
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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