From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: timo.teras@iki.fi
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, justinmattock@gmail.com,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, linville@tuxdriver.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: check bundle policy existance before dereferencing it
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:35:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100624.143532.245414414.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277358319-9868-1-git-send-email-timo.teras@iki.fi>
From: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:45:19 +0300
> Fix the bundle validation code to not assume having a valid policy.
> When we have multiple transformations for a xfrm policy, the bundle
> instance will be a chain of bundles with only the first one having
> the policy reference. When policy_genid is bumped it will expire the
> first bundle in the chain which is equivalent of expiring the whole
> chain.
>
> Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-24 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <AANLkTilf41JrFwN1veRDifNA78S2LQ6SO0g3YLOONd2W@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20100623141622.GC15205@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-23 14:41 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0 Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-23 17:00 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-23 17:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-23 18:10 ` Timo Teräs
2010-06-23 18:20 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-23 20:34 ` Timo Teräs
2010-06-23 21:44 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-24 5:45 ` [PATCH] xfrm: check bundle policy existance before dereferencing it Timo Teräs
2010-06-24 21:35 ` David Miller [this message]
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