From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [NETFILTER] xt_pkttype match fixes
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:43:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080115064346.GA10022@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478C4DBF.2070107@trash.net>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:07:59AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 03:41:29AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> We were always interpreting an IPv6 packet as IPv4, but
>>> ipv4_is_multicast() is only valid for AF_INET (obviously). Fix this
>>> by adding an extra condition to check for AF_INET.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
>>
>> Did this ever go into Linus's tree? I don't see it there, and as such,
>> I can't take this for the -stable tree, sorry.
>
>
> I have it queued for 2.6.25 since I missed Jan's initial posting.
>
> But the patch only affects a minor corner case (IPv6 multicast
> on loopback might be classified as broadcast), so I don't think
> it qualifies for -stable anyways.
Ok, thanks for letting me know, I'll drop it from my to-apply queue.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-19 5:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-22 2:41 [NETFILTER] xt_pkttype match fixes Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-14 23:07 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-01-15 6:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-15 6:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
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