On 17/04/2015 22:21, David Miller wrote:
> From: Erez Shitrit <ere...@mellanox.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:34:34 +0300
>
>> Currently, iflink of the parent interface was always accessed, even
>> when interface didn't have a parent and hence we crashed there.
>>
>> Handle the interface types properly: for a child interface, return
>> the ifindex of the parent, for parent interface, return its ifindex.
>>
>> For child devices, make sure to set the parent pointer prior to
>> invoking register_netdevice(), this allows the new ndo to be called
>> by the stack immediately after the child device is registered.
>>
>> Fixes: 5aa7add8f14b ('infiniband/ipoib: implement ndo_get_iflink')
>> Reported-by: Honggang Li <ho...@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <ere...@mellanox.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Honggang Li <ho...@redhat.com>
>
> Applied, thanks.
Doug, Roland,
You might want to include this patch in your for-next / for-4.1 trees,
or merge net-next again. Currently they contain the issue it fixes, and
it can prevent some systems with IPoIB from booting.
Regards,
Haggai
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