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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: jasowang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, stable@kernel.org,
	mst@redhat.com, akong@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Possible NULL dereference caused by -stable commit ef81bb40bf15f350fe865f31fa42f1082772a576
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:12:42 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110928.131242.1368255500458954764.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317211749.2941.6.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:09:09 +0200

> All we need here is not the route but inet_peer, so that inet_getid()
> can be called on it.

It's not exactly that simple, you have to parse all hop-by-hop options
to get the correct "destination" address.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-28 10:51 Possible NULL dereference caused by -stable commit ef81bb40bf15f350fe865f31fa42f1082772a576 Jason Wang
2011-09-28 12:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-28 17:12   ` David Miller [this message]
2011-09-28 18:32   ` David Miller

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