From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix NULL pointer dereference and lockup. Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080603.145417.261803290.davem@davemloft.net> References: <001a01c87692$cfca8d00$453c822c@dg8ngn> <20080224195101.GA2961@ami.dom.local> <20080526082345.GA27219@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jarkao2@gmail.com, jann@gmx.de, thomas@osterried.de To: ralf@linux-mips.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52915 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752795AbYFCVyS (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:54:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080526082345.GA27219@linux-mips.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ralf Baechle Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:23:45 +0100 > From: Jarek Poplawski > > There is only one function in AX25 calling skb_append(), and it really > looks suspicious: appends skb after previously enqueued one, but in > the meantime this previous skb could be removed from the queue. > > This patch Fixes it the simple way, so this is not fully compatible with > the current method, but testing hasn't shown any problems. > > Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle > > --- > I'm told Jarek is currently not reachable, so I'm submitting this for 2.6.26 > and -stable. Applied, and queued up for -stable, thanks everyone.