On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Haggai Eran <hagg...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> On 17/04/2015 22:21, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Erez Shitrit <ere...@mellanox.com>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:34:34 +0300
>>
>>> Currently, iflink of the parent interface was always accessed, even
>>> when interface didn't have a parent and hence we crashed there.
>>>
>>> Handle the interface types properly: for a child interface, return
>>> the ifindex of the parent, for parent interface, return its ifindex.
>>>
>>> For child devices, make sure to set the parent pointer prior to
>>> invoking register_netdevice(), this allows the new ndo to be called
>>> by the stack immediately after the child device is registered.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 5aa7add8f14b ('infiniband/ipoib: implement ndo_get_iflink')
>>> Reported-by: Honggang Li <ho...@redhat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <ere...@mellanox.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Honggang Li <ho...@redhat.com>
>>
>> Applied, thanks.
>
> Doug, Roland,
> You might want to include this patch in your for-next / for-4.1 trees,
> or merge net-next again. Currently they contain the issue it fixes, and
> it can prevent some systems with IPoIB from booting.Haggai, It's upstream by now, pull Linus tree. Or. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
