netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ixgbevf: Refactor ring parameter re-size

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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:43:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com,
	gregory.v.rose@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ixgbevf: Refactor ring parameter re-size

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:46:25 -0700

> From: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
> 
> The function to resize the Tx/Rx rings had the potential to
> dereference a NULL pointer and the code would attempt to resize
> the Tx ring even if the Rx ring allocation had failed.  This
> would cause some confusion in the return code semantics.  Fixed
> up to just unwind the allocations if any of them fail and return
> an error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied, thanks!
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