netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tg3: Avoid panic from reserved statblk field access

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Message-Id: <20120425.144215.1558381345718916443.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:42:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mcarlson@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tg3: Avoid panic from reserved statblk field access

From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:37:01 -0700

> When RSS is enabled, interrupt vector 0 does not receive any rx traffic.
> The rx producer index fields for vector 0's status block should be
> considered reserved in this case.  This patch changes the code to
> respect these reserved fields, which avoids a kernel panic when these
> fields take on non-zero values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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