From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: Andreas.Klauer@metamorpher.de, hagen@jauu.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, opurdila@ixiacom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix NULL reference in proxy neighbor discovery
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:31:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100625.213104.71566967.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100621140013.508741df@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:00:13 -0700
> The addition of TLLAO option created a kernel OOPS regression
> for the case where neighbor advertisement is being sent via
> proxy path. When using proxy, ipv6_get_ifaddr() returns NULL
> causing the NULL dereference.
>
> Change causing the bug was:
> commit f7734fdf61ec6bb848e0bafc1fb8bad2c124bb50
> Author: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
> Date: Fri Oct 2 11:39:15 2009 +0000
>
> make TLLAO option for NA packets configurable
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-26 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-19 17:53 2.6.34 + IPv6: Oops? Andreas Klauer
2010-06-21 15:30 ` Andreas Klauer
2010-06-21 16:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-21 16:26 ` Andreas Klauer
2010-06-21 16:25 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-06-21 17:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-21 20:04 ` Andreas Klauer
2010-06-21 21:00 ` [PATCH] ipv6: fix NULL reference in proxy neighbor discovery Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-23 14:44 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2010-06-26 4:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-06-22 12:29 ` 2.6.34 + IPv6: Oops? Andreas Klauer
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