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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [BUG] net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:10:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081115051015.GB26468@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491D07E0.9010903@cosmosbay.com>

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 06:08:48AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Hello Greg
> 
> A patch was submited about /proc/net/snmp being a memory corruptor and not SMP safe
> 
> (commit b971e7ac834e9f4bda96d5a96ae9abccd01c1dd8)
> 
> These bugs are present on 2.6.26 & 2.6.27.

I looking at this, it doesn't seem to apply at all to the .27 tree.  If
David doesn't object, care to backport it there and send it to
stable@kernel.org?

thanks,

greg k-h

       reply	other threads:[~2008-11-15  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <491D07E0.9010903@cosmosbay.com>
2008-11-15  5:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-11-15  5:25   ` [stable] [BUG] net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor Eric Dumazet
2008-11-15  6:02     ` Greg KH
2008-11-15  8:37       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-15 18:43         ` Greg KH
2008-11-17  4:51           ` Greg KH
2008-11-17  6:04             ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-15  6:23   ` David Miller

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