Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] [TPROXY] fixes a possible read from an unmapped location in the socket match

David Miller
2008-12-08T07:54:27Z

From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:16:53 +0100

> TIME_WAIT sockets need to be handled specially, and the socket match
> casted inet_timewait_sock instances to inet_sock, which are not
> compatible. Handle this special case by checking sk->sk_state.

There is no need to send this seperate version of the patch,
the bug fix will propagate automatically when I next merge
net-2.6 into net-next-2.6