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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:26:12 +0100
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Le vendredi 03 f=C3=A9vrier 2012 =C3=A0 07:48 +0100, Stefan Priebe - Pr=
ofihost AG
a =C3=A9crit :
> Am 03.02.2012 01:42, schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:39:57PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:15 +0100
> >>
> >>> David, what do you think ?
> >>
> >> I frankly don't care at this point.
> >>
> >> The only reasonable thing is if someone can successfully do the
> >> backport, but if that's not possible there really isn't anything
> >> reasonable we can do, all the other options have fatal negative
> >> consequences which make them completely untenable.
> >=20
> > I agree.  I'm pretty sure the distros basing their releases on 3.0 =
are
> > aware of this issue, so perhaps someone could dig through those tre=
e and
> > see how they resolved this issue, if at all.
> >=20
> I haven't found any distris which has backported something regarding
> this issue.
>=20
> Also it seems that there's only Ubuntu using 3.0. Debian and others h=
ave
> already moved to 3.1 / 3.2. Anything i miss?
>=20
> I've made my own backport of the patch and removed at least 1-2
> dependencies. Anybody interested?
>=20

If you did the work, post it for review.

Thanks