From: Weidong Wang <wangweido...@huawei.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 18:03:47 +0800
> we have two processes to do: > P1#: ifconfig eth0 down; which will call bnx2_close, then will > , and set Null to stats_blk > P2#: ifconfig eth0; which will call bnx2_get_stats64, it will > use stats_blk. > In one case: > --P1#-- --P2#-- > stats_blk(no null) > bnx2_free_mem > ->bp->stats_blk = NULL > GET_64BIT_NET_STATS > > then it will cause 'NULL Pointer' Problem. > it is as well with 'ethtool -S ethx'. > > Allocate the statistics block at probe time so that this problem is > impossible > > Signed-off-by: Wang Weidong <wangweido...@huawei.com> Applied, thank you. -- 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
