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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>2012-07-16 23:44:48 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-07-17 02:56:53 -0700
commit10cc1bdd5ef65f60f570b594c4c066d763c128fb (patch)
treeb0732c876912dfab1e4570c8e846ad6fa0c9fbeb /drivers/net
parentef764a13b8f4bc4b532a51bc37c35b3974831b29 (diff)
ixgbevf: Fix panic when loading driver
This patch addresses a kernel panic seen when setting up the interface. Specifically we see a NULL pointer dereference on the Tx descriptor cleanup path when enabling interrupts. This change corrects that so it cannot occur. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
index 8b304a43a22d..41e32257a4e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ static bool ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter,
unsigned int i, eop, count = 0;
unsigned int total_bytes = 0, total_packets = 0;
+ if (test_bit(__IXGBEVF_DOWN, &adapter->state))
+ return true;
+
i = tx_ring->next_to_clean;
eop = tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i].next_to_watch;
eop_desc = IXGBE_TX_DESC_ADV(*tx_ring, eop);