From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: pull request [net]: batman-adv 20160216 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:37:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20160219.153718.442738962662787470.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1455634888-29400-1-git-send-email-a@unstable.cc> Reply-To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, b.a.t.m.a.n-ZwoEplunGu2X36UT3dwllkB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org To: a@unstable.cc Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1455634888-29400-1-git-send-email-a-2CpIooy/SPIKlTDg6p0iyA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: b.a.t.m.a.n-bounces-ZwoEplunGu2X36UT3dwllkB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Sender: "B.A.T.M.A.N" List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Antonio Quartulli Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:01:25 +0800 > this pull request is intended for net. > > Two of the fixes included in this patchset prevent a wrong memory > access - it was triggered when removing an object from a list > after it was already free'd due to bad reference counting. > This misbehaviour existed for both the gw_node and the > orig_node_vlan object and has been fixed by Sven Eckelmann. > > The last patch fixes our interface feasibility check and prevents > it from looping indefinitely when two net_device objects > reference each other via iflink index (i.e. veth pair), by > Andrew Lunn Pulled, thanks Antonio. And thanks for the heads up about the potential merge issues, I'll watch for that.