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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix NULL reference in proxy neighbor discovery
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:31:04 -0700 (PDT)
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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.