ibmvnic: Ensure that buffers are NULL after free

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This change will guard against a double free in the case that the
buffers were previously freed at some other time, such as during
a device reset. It resolves a kernel oops that occurred when changing
the VNIC device's MTU.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Thomas Falcon 2018-02-06 17:25:23 -06:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c

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