sunvnet: fix null pointer deref and crash recovery
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cover sunvnet: fix null pointer deref and crash recovery
These patches fix an incorrect ordering in releasing ring data, clear pending tx buffers on a reset, and make the sunvnet driver more reliable when remote systems crash during active transmits.
David L Stevens (2):
sunvnet: free pending tx buffers before clearing ring data
sunvnet: improve error handling when a remote crashes
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
Quoted 3 lines · David L Stevens
These patches fix an incorrect ordering in releasing ring data, clear pending tx buffers on a reset, and make the sunvnet driver more reliable when remote systems crash during active transmits.
David Miller
maintainerFrom: David L Stevens <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:54:14 -0500
Quoted 3 lines
These patches fix an incorrect ordering in releasing ring data, clear pending tx buffers on a reset, and make the sunvnet driver more reliable when remote systems crash during active transmits.
Series applied, thanks David.