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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [BUG] net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:10:15 -0800
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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