[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] datapath: Do not set dev->master for XEN.

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Mon Aug 12 22:57:06 UTC 2013


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
>> XEN dom0 networking assumes dev->master is bond device
>> and it tries to access bond private structure from dev->master
>> ptr on receive path. This causes panic.
>> Following patch removes compat code that is setting master
>> device.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
>> Bug #18920
>
> Can you also add some of the description from the commit message to a
> comment? That way in the future we know why we don't backport it.
>
> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Thanks,
I pushed updated patch.



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