Issue reported by Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Steps to reproduce (with ixgbe port): ./testpmd -- -i > port stop all > port close all > port detach 0 The reason of the crash is: (*vfinfo) is a null pointer at that point, -> dereferences it. The issue is introduced in: commit cf80ba6e2038a54b6c5ba62ce4200234f5aa3880 Author: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 11:41:05 2018 +0100 net/ixgbe: add support for representor ports
A fix patch has been sent by Pablo: net/ixgbe: fix crash on detach https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/40516/
Looks like the fix for this has been applied via commit f92b808dd50e.