On Jul 1, 2019, at 6:51 PM, David Miller 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 m
From: Josh Elsasser
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 16:41:43 -0700
> No changes since V2[1], resent as per discussiond on -stable[2]. I hope
> this is the correct way to send net fixes for older LTS releases, I'm
> going off of the latest netdev FAQ:
I just tried to apply this with "git am" to the curren
init_dummy_netdev() leaves its netdev_ops pointer zeroed. This leads
to a NULL pointer dereference when sk_busy_loop fires against an iwlwifi
wireless adapter and checks napi->dev->netdev_ops->ndo_busy_poll.
Avoid this by ensuring napi->dev->netdev_ops is valid before following
the pointer, avoidi
