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During PCI error recovery process, specifically on eeh_err_detected() we might have a NULL netdev struct, hence a direct dereference will lead to a kernel oops. This was observed with latest upstream kernel (v4.12-rc2) on Chelsio adapter T422-CR in PowerPC machines. This patch checks for NULL pointer and avoids the crash, both in eeh_err_detected() and eeh_resume(). Also, we avoid to trigger a fatal error or to try disabling interrupts on FW during PCI error recovery, because: (a) driver might not be able to accurately access PCI regions in this case, and (b) trigger a fatal error _during_ the recovery steps is a mistake that could prevent the recovery path to complete successfully. Reported-by: Harsha Thyagaraja <hathyaga@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.