Ohai,

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 01:30:01PM +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
> The reason for the segmentation faults is that the arguments
> passed to several functions are parsed incorrectly in the C
> library.
> They use the format string "s*" instead of "s", which would
> require a Py_buffer structure instead of a C string.
> 
> The attached patch fixes this everywhere arguments are parsed
> into a C string.

Yepp, I can confirm that the patch fixes the issue.

> And btw. the upstream homepage seems to have disappeared,
> so I don't know where to forward the patch to.

It's now on 
https://fedorapeople.org/cgit/dsommers/public_git/python-ethtool.git/

I am currently looking into #845323 and wonder if that is related to this.

I'd upload an NMU if bzed does not scream too loud tomorrow.

Greets
Evgeni

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