How about just initializing it when the rest of the struct is
initialized? This is what is done for every other model.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:47 AM, zhuyj <zyjzyj2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure. setup_fc should not be null. Emil, your patch can fix it well.
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Tantilov, Emil S <emil.s.tanti...@intel.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-boun...@lists.osuosl.org]
>> > On
>> >Behalf Of Rustad, Mark D
>> >Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 4:01 PM
>> >To: Patrick McLean <patri...@gaikai.com>
>> >Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-
>> >l...@lists.osuosl.org>
>> >Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] (resend) ixgbe: always initialize
>> >setup_fc
>> >
>> >Patrick McLean <patri...@gaikai.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Gmail mangled my first message, sorry about that. Second attempt.
>> >>
>> >> In ixgbe_init_mac_link_ops_X550em, the code has a special case for
>> >> backplane media type, but does not fall through to the default case,
>> >> so the setup_fc never gets initialized. This causes a panic when it
>> >> later tries to set up the card, and the kernel dereferences the null
>> >> pointer.
>> >>
>> >> This patch lets the the function fall through, which initialized
>> >> setup_fc properly.
>> >
>> >I don't think that this is the right fix. My memory is that fc autoneg is
>>
>> setup_fc() does not configure FC autoneg and it should always be set.
>>
>> I posted an alternative patch that simply sets setup_fc at the beginning
>> of
>> the function. The fall-through in the switch statement is not a good
>> solution
>> because it won't work in case we need to add another case.
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/646228/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emil
>>
>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c
index 19b75cd..cfc814a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c
@@ -2915,7 +2915,7 @@ static const struct ixgbe_mac_operations mac_ops_X550EM_x = {
.acquire_swfw_sync = &ixgbe_acquire_swfw_sync_X550em,
.release_swfw_sync = &ixgbe_release_swfw_sync_X550em,
.init_swfw_sync = &ixgbe_init_swfw_sync_X540,
- .setup_fc = NULL, /* defined later */
+ .setup_fc = ixgbe_setup_fc_x550em,
.read_iosf_sb_reg = ixgbe_read_iosf_sb_reg_x550,
.write_iosf_sb_reg = ixgbe_write_iosf_sb_reg_x550,
};
