On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:12:51AM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:05:09AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > When the netlink interface code is disabled, a stub version of
> > netlink_run_handler() is used. This stub version needs to handle the
> > case when there is no possibility for a command to fall back to the
> > IOCTL call. The two cable tests commands have no such fallback, and if
> > we don't handle this, ethtool tries to jump through a NULL pointer
> > resulting in a segfault.
> >
> > Reported-by: Chris Healy <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>
>
> Applied, thank you. I'll need to be more thorough with teseting the
> --disable-netlink builds.
Hi Michal
Yes. We are all focused on retlink, and missed the backwards
compatibility issues like this.
Andrew
