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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [BUG] net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:25:33 +0100
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Greg KH a =E9crit :
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 06:08:48AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Hello Greg
>>
>> A patch was submited about /proc/net/snmp being a memory corruptor a=
nd not SMP safe
>>
>> (commit b971e7ac834e9f4bda96d5a96ae9abccd01c1dd8)
>>
>> These bugs are present on 2.6.26 & 2.6.27.
>=20
> I looking at this, it doesn't seem to apply at all to the .27 tree.  =
If
> David doesn't object, care to backport it there and send it to
> stable@kernel.org?
>=20

Strange... I just tried to apply patch on top of a fresh linux-2.6.27.6=
 tree and got no error

# patch -p1 < /tmp/icmp_snmp.patch
patching file net/ipv4/proc.c
#