Re: veth crash (commit 751ae21c6cd1493e3d0a4935b08fb298b9d89773)

[Santiago Leon]

David Gibson wrote:
> Jeff, Santiago, please apply the patch below to correct this:
>
> ibmveth: Fix index increment calculation
>
> The recent commit 751ae21c6cd1493e3d0a4935b08fb298b9d89773 introduced
> a bug in the producer/consumer index calculation in the ibmveth driver
> - incautious use of the post-increment ++ operator resulted in an
> increment being immediately reverted.  This patch corrects the logic.
>
> Without this patch, the driver oopses almost immediately after
> activation on at least some machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

David, I'm not sure how it got past the testing that I did, but thanks 
for catching this.

Jeff, can you apply? Thank you.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@xxxxxxxxxx
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Santiago A. Leon
Power Linux Development
IBM Linux Technology Center
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