From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: bootc@bootc.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in ipv6_select_ident
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:38:29 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111222.223829.536447332324142274.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324563353.2153.27.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:15:53 +0100
> [PATCH] net: introduce DST_NOPEER dst flag
>
> Chris Boot reported crashes occurring in ipv6_select_ident().
...
> This is caused by bridge netfilter special dst_entry (fake_rtable), a
> special shared entry, where attaching an inetpeer makes no sense.
>
> Problem is present since commit 87c48fa3b46 (ipv6: make fragment
> identifications less predictable)
>
> Introduce DST_NOPEER dst flag and make sure ipv6_select_ident() and
> __ip_select_ident() fallback to the 'no peer attached' handling.
>
> Reported-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
> Tested-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-23 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-12-21 16:29 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in ipv6_select_ident Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 17:03 ` Chris Boot
2011-12-21 17:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 18:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 20:05 ` Chris Boot
2011-12-21 20:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 20:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 21:58 ` Chris Boot
2011-12-21 23:12 ` Chris Boot
2011-12-22 4:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 6:00 ` [PATCH] bridge: provide a mtu() method for fake_dst_ops Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 7:05 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22 6:38 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in ipv6_select_ident Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22 7:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 7:58 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22 8:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 10:01 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22 10:04 ` Chris Boot
2011-12-22 14:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 15:54 ` Chris Boot
2011-12-22 17:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 18:29 ` David Miller
2011-12-23 3:38 ` David Miller [this message]
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