From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bogdan.hamciuc@freescale.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pktgen: fix null ptr deref in skb allocation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:32:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569538BC.7090202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160111.174031.1199997012538036511.davem@davemloft.net>
On 16-01-11 02:40 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:38:44 -0800
>
>> Fix possible null pointer dereference that may occur when calling
>> skb_reserve() on a null skb.
>>
>> Fixes: 879c7220e82 ("net: pktgen: Observe needed_headroom of the device")
>> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
>
> I don't know how I missed that during review :-/
Well once you get pktgen running fast enough to get allocation
failures the occasional system halts are pretty hard to miss :)
>
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-11 5:38 [PATCH] net: pktgen: fix null ptr deref in skb allocation John Fastabend
2016-01-11 22:40 ` David Miller
2016-01-12 17:32 ` John Fastabend [this message]
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