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From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix: kmemleak in tcp_v4/6_syn_recv_sock and dccp_v4/6_request_recv_sock
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:59:38 +0100
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Hi Eric,

On Thursday 13 December 2012 15:38:10 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Are you sure the above commit is the bug origin ?
> 
> It looks like bug was bring by transparent proxy in 2.6.37
> 
> commit 093d282321daeb19c107e5f1f16d7f68484f3ade
> Author: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
> Date:   Thu Oct 21 13:06:43 2010 +0200

yes, you are right.

My patch would not easily apply on kernels < 3.0, as it depends on the 
"put_and_exit"-goto.
Should I send a separate patch? And to whom? (I don't find any guidelines 
about how to submit patches to older stable kernels)


Thanks,
Christoph

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