From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
acme@redhat.com, dccp@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [DCCP]: Fix skb->cb conflicts with IP
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:40:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F62FE7.9060508@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080404132525.GB29904@gerrit.erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Gerrit Renker wrote:
> Arnaldo,
>
> just a thought - I recall that there used to be a bug related to this,
> which required to insert the following before sending an skb:
>
> memset(&(IPCB(skb)->opt), 0, sizeof(IPCB(skb)->opt))
>
> This was about 1+1/2 .. 2 years ago and lead to crashes when the memset
> was removed. Maybe with this solution the memsets are then no longer
> necessary? The reference is
> * output.c:dccp_transmit_skb()
> * ipv4.c:dccp_v4_send_response()
Yes, that shouldn't be needed anymore with this patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-04 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-04 12:13 [DCCP]: Fix skb->cb conflicts with IP Patrick McHardy
2008-04-04 13:25 ` Gerrit Renker
2008-04-04 13:40 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-04-04 13:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-04-04 13:26 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-04-11 13:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-11 13:59 ` Gerrit Renker
2008-04-11 14:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-11 14:05 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-04-11 18:24 ` David Miller
2008-04-13 1:35 ` David Miller
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