Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> :
> pci_set_drvdata() is called only after registering the net_device,
> therefore we could run into a NPE if one of the functions using
> driver_data is called before it's set.
> 
> Fix this by calling pci_set_drvdata() before registering the
> net_device.
> 
> This fix is a candidate for stable. As far as I can see the
> bug has been there in kernel version 3.2 already, therefore
> I can't provide a reference which commit is fixed by it.

It does not sound convincing.

Please tell which functions are supposed to crash.

Suspend / resume ones ? Anything else ?

-- 
Ueimor

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