* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-21 22:54
> Which used to be a BUG. It later oopsed via a null-pointer deref in
> net_rx_action(), which is a much preferable result.
I fixed this already
Index: net-2.6.24/include/linux/netpoll.h
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.24.orig/include/linux/netpoll.h 2007-08-22 01:02:14.000000000
+0200
+++ net-2.6.24/include/linux/netpoll.h 2007-08-22 01:02:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static inline void *netpoll_poll_lock(st
struct net_device *dev = napi->dev;
rcu_read_lock(); /* deal with race on ->npinfo */
- if (dev->npinfo) {
+ if (dev && dev->npinfo) {
spin_lock(&napi->poll_lock);
napi->poll_owner = smp_processor_id();
return napi;
-
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