commit 22a08538dc upstream.
This patch fixes a crash when tried setting symbolic name for an offline
vport through sysfs. Crash is due to uninitialized pointer lport->ns,
which gets initialized only on linkup (port online).
Signed-off-by: Vijaya Mohan Guvva <vmohan@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>