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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus private
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:04:25 -0800 (PST)
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:41:20 +0800

> [PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus private pointer
> 
> The seq_open_net patch changed the meaning of seq->private.
> Unfortunately it missed two spots in AF_PACKET, which still
> used the old way of dereferencing seq->private, thus causing
> weird and wonderful crashes when reading /proc/net/packet.
> 
> This patch fixes them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Applied to net-2.6.25, thanks Herbert.