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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] statd: Teach nfs_compare_sockaddr() to handle NULL arguments.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:10:51 -0500
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On 01/25/2010 11:59 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> It seems the list of interfaces returned by getifaddrs()
> can contain a null address pointer (ifa->ifa_addr) even though 
> the interface is marked UP (this happens with the tun0 interface).
> 
> So this patch makes nfs_compare_sockaddr() return false
> if either one of its arguments is null..
> 
Committed...

steved.