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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 13:12:23 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Susant Sahani <susant@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 00:11:32 +0530

> The function ip6_tnl_validate assumes that the rtnl
> attribute IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO always be filled . If this
> attribute is not filled by  the userspace application
> kernel get crashed with NULL pointer dereference. This
> patch fixes the potential kernel crash when
> IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO is missing .
> 
> Signed-off-by: Susant Sahani <susant@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

You really need to fix the date on your computer, it was not
Saturday May 10th when you submitted this patch.