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From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@sw.ru>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: den@openvz.org, devel@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kaber@trash.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OOPS with NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP netlink socket
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:39:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476B89D8.2060602@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071221.013321.164620125.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:00:43 +0300
> 
>> nl_fib_input re-reuses incoming skb to send the reply. This means that this
>> packet will be freed twice, namely in:
>> - netlink_unicast_kernel
>> - on receive path
>> Use clone to send as a cure, the caller is responsible for kfree_skb on error.
>>
>> Thanks to Alexey Dobryan, who originally found the problem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> 
> What introduced this bug?  This code didn't have this
> problem previously.
> 

commit cd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0
Author: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 10 21:15:29 2007 -0700

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-21  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-21  9:00 [PATCH] OOPS with NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP netlink socket Denis V. Lunev
2007-12-21  9:33 ` David Miller
2007-12-21  9:39   ` Denis V. Lunev [this message]
2007-12-21  9:59     ` David Miller

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