From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: skb_set_dev do not unconditionally drop ref to dst Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 12:32:27 +0000 Message-ID: <201205031232.27842.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1335765093.2296.4.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1335941961.22133.48.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20120503.022837.2021054007853235758.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120503.022837.2021054007853235758.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: David Miller Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 03 May 2012, David Miller wrote: > From: Eric Dumazet > Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 08:59:21 +0200 > > > If Arnd doesnt care to even reply, we can just revert his buggy > > patch, instead of trying to understand and fix all issues. > > Agreed, it's the best sounding solution by far. I've tried to understand what I've done back then but also couldn't remember, so I won't complain when it gets reverted. For all I know I did this because it looked broken back then, but I don't remember a specific way in which it could be exploited to escape a namespace. Arnd