From: Alexander Duyck Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:44:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ixgbevf: Fix panic when loading driver X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~2776^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10cc1bdd5ef65f60f570b594c4c066d763c128fb;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git ixgbevf: Fix panic when loading driver This patch addresses a kernel panic seen when setting up the interface. Specifically we see a NULL pointer dereference on the Tx descriptor cleanup path when enabling interrupts. This change corrects that so it cannot occur. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Acked-by: Greg Rose Tested-by: Sibai Li Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c index 8b304a4..41e3225 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c @@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ static bool ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter, unsigned int i, eop, count = 0; unsigned int total_bytes = 0, total_packets = 0; + if (test_bit(__IXGBEVF_DOWN, &adapter->state)) + return true; + i = tx_ring->next_to_clean; eop = tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i].next_to_watch; eop_desc = IXGBE_TX_DESC_ADV(*tx_ring, eop);