>-----Original Message----- >From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-boun...@lists.osuosl.org] On >Behalf Of Patrick McLean >Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 6:31 PM >To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> >Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org >Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ixgbe: always initialize setup_fc > >In ixgbe_init_mac_link_ops_X550em, the code has a special case for >backplane media type, but does not fall through to the default case, so the >setup_fc never gets initialized. This causes a panic when it later tries to >set up the card, and the kernel dereferences the null pointer. > >This patch lets the the function fall through, which initialized setup_fc >properly.
Why are you resending this patch? I have already submitted a patch to handle this properly: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/646228/ Thanks, Emil
