netdev - [PATCH net-next] vmxnet3: set netdev parant device before calling netdev

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1107201834220.19334@sbhatewara-dev1.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
cc:	pv-drivers@...are.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next] vmxnet3: set netdev parant device before calling
 netdev_info


Parent device for netdev should be set before netdev_info() can be called
otherwise there is a NULL pointer dereference and probe() fails.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>

--

diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
index 009277e..1a8cc5b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
@@ -2993,6 +2993,7 @@ vmxnet3_probe_device(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 		goto err_ver;
 	}
 
+	SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pdev->dev);
 	vmxnet3_declare_features(adapter, dma64);
 
 	adapter->dev_number = atomic_read(&devices_found);
@@ -3038,7 +3039,6 @@ vmxnet3_probe_device(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(adapter->netdev, adapter->num_tx_queues);
 	netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(adapter->netdev, adapter->num_rx_queues);
 
-	SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pdev->dev);
 	err = register_netdev(netdev);
 
 	if (err) {
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