Re: panic with 2.6.28 while doing "ip -6 route"

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC)

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > I'm surprised that it's taken nearly 3 years for this bug to
> > show itself.  It even survived a move from route.c :)
> > 
> > ipv6: Fix fib6_dump_table walker leak
> > 
> > When a fib6 table dump is prematurely ended, we won't unlink
> > its walker from the list.  This causes all sorts of grief for
> > other users of the list later.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
> > index 29c7c99..52ee1dc 100644
> 
> I applied the patch, rebooted and performed about a hundred "ip -6 route | 
> head" commands with the full v6 route table.  The fix works great!
> 
> Any chance of vectoring it for 2.6.28.x?

Sure, I'll queue it up for -stable.