On 11/14/17 8:47 PM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Hi Bryant,
>
> This looks a bit better, but...
>
>> The following patch ensures that the bounce_buffer is not null
>> prior to using it within skb_copy_from_linear_data.
> How would this occur?
>
> Looking at ibmveth.c, I see bounce_buffer being freed in
] [c004563c] start_secondary+0x33c/0x360
[76563.914572] [c000feab3f90] [c0008b6c]
start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly
Signed-off-by: Sivakumar Krishnasamy
Cc: # 4.4+
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 10 --
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2
On 11/13/17 7:07 PM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Hi Bryant,
>
> A few things:
>
> 1) The commit message could probably be trimmed, especially the stack
> traces.
Yes, I can trim it.
> 2) What exactly are you changing and why does it fix the issue? I
> couldn't figure that out from the commit message
409e0014 a004 38840002 38630002 409d0014
8004
[76563.914613] ---[ end trace 5382b3d78671418e ]---
[76563.916817]
[76565.916870] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
[76565.919468] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly