From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Peter Huang(Peng)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
Cc: "'David S. Miller'" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, ctrix+debianbugs@navynet.it,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
harry.majun@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
peter.huangpeng@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] set fake_rtable's dst to NULL to avoid kernel Oops.
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:46:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120418234649.0bcb3872@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8F77F5.8020201@huawei.com>
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:27:01 +0800
"Peter Huang(Peng)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com> wrote:
> When bridge is deleted before tap/vif device's delete, kernel may
> encounter an oops because of NULL reference to fake_rtable's dst.
> Set fake_rtable's dst to NULL before sending packets out can solve this
> problem.
>
> v3 enrich commit header
>
> v2 added a new flag DST_FAKE_RTABLE to dst_entry struct.
>
>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Huang <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
I am okay with the contents of the patch but the formatting is all
botched. It adds bad indentation and whitespace, please run it
through checkpatch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 2:27 [PATCH v3] set fake_rtable's dst to NULL to avoid kernel Oops Peter Huang(Peng)
2012-04-19 6:46 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-04-19 8:58 ` Peter Huang(Peng)
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