From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:58:20 -0800

> The problem I was seeing turned out to be that skb->dev is NULL when
> the checksum is being completed in user context. This happens because the
> reference to the device is dropped (to allow it to be released when packets
> are in the queue).
> 
> Because skb->dev was NULL, the netdev_rx_csum_fault was panicing on
> deref of dev->name. How about this?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Fair enough, applied.

Perhaps this is another argument to store ->ifindex in the SKB
instead of a device pointer.
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