From: Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>
To: Tom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in veth_stats_one
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:45:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357314320.1678.1414.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130104105955.GA3663@raven>
On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 10:59 +0000, Tom Parkin wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I recently tripped over a NULL pointer dereference in the veth driver.
> I'm running a 3.8.0_rc1 (updated from net-next git tree this morning)
> on an Athlon 64 X2 machine running a 32 bit kernel. To trigger the
> oops I simply created a veth interface as follows:
>
> ip link add name ve0 type veth peer name ve1
>
> I did a little digging in the git history and I note that veth
> statistics changed a little with commit 2681128f0ced8aa4. I tried
> reverting that commit in my tree, which made the oops go away again.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
Thanks Tom, I'll fix this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-04 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-04 10:59 NULL pointer dereference in veth_stats_one Tom Parkin
2013-01-04 15:45 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-01-04 16:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-04 18:17 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-04 19:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-04 20:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-05 1:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-08 3:43 ` David Miller
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