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From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.30-git21] Network Namespace test failure
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:08:30 +0530
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Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Indeed the following patch fixes it on my end.  Sachin can you give
> this one a shot?
>
> thanks,
> -serge
>
> From 7193023ad09dbc4b57909c0204c19ed93472cd9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: root <root@elm3b203.beaverton.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:26:17 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] veth: don't free priv->status until dev->destructor
>
> Since commit ae0e8e82205c903978a79ebf5e31c670b61fa5b4, priv->status
> has been freed at veth_close().  But that causes a NULL deref at
> veth_xmit.  This patch moves priv->status free back to the device
> destructor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> ---
Yes this fixed the problem for me.

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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