netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND 4.9.y] net: check before dereferencing netdev

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Message-Id: <84C901BF-9CA7-4A5F-9CC7-EE095EA043A5@appneta.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Jul 2019 18:56:32 -0700
From:   Josh Elsasser <jelsasser@...neta.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, mcroce@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 4.9.y] net: check before dereferencing netdev_ops
 during busy poll

On Jul 1, 2019, at 6:51 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> I just tried to apply this with "git am" to the current v4.19 -stable
> branch and it failed.

This is only needed for the v4.9 stable kernel, ndo_busy_poll (and this NPE) 
went away in kernel 4.11.

Sorry, I probably should have called that out more explicitly.