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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipvs: Verify that IP_VS protocol has been
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 08:19:42 +0900
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:24:33PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> The registration of a protocol might fail, there were no checks
> and all registrations were assumed to be correct. This lead to
> NULL ptr dereferences when apps tried registering.

Thanks, I will queue up this fix.

Do you have a real-world example of this failing, if so it
might be worth pushing your change into stable.