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From: Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in veth_stats_one
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:45:20 -0800
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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.