From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in skb_dequeue
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:07:01 +0100
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Cc: Andrej Ota <andrej@ota.si>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	gvs@zemos.net, Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>,
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To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le vendredi 03 d=C3=A9cembre 2010 =C3=A0 15:37 +0100, Andrej Ota a =C3=
=A9crit :
>>>> Patch that works for me is below. Now I only hope I haven't
>>>> (re)introduced a memory leak...
>>
>>> Problem comes from commit 55c95e738da85 (fix return value of
>>> __pppoe_xmit() method)
=2E..
> Rami, could you re-explain the rationale of your patch ?

I guess we could revert it in the meantime: it seems there might be
at least three threads (including bugzilla) with this problem.

Jarek P.