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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix use after free in netlink_kernel_create()
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:52:58 +0200
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Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This patch invalidates nl_table by setting NULL when netlink
> initialization failed. Otherwise netlink_kernel_create() would
> access nl_table which has already been freed.


Quite a few users of netlink_kernel_create will panic when creating
the socket fails (rtnetlink for example, which is always present),
so you might as well call panic here directly.