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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Dan Streetman <dan.streetman@canonical.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	fw@strlen.de, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, lkml@rkeene.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip_rcv_finish() NULL pointer kernel panic
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:39:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170313173942.GB26782@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOZ2QJPUNm2ymTdcyW6HO9B2yhHv1MfeycywOajDSty0A6ZHFQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Streetman <dan.streetman@canonical.com> wrote:
> > But I have to say that this netfilter bridging fake dst has caused
> > several dozen bugs over the years, it is fundamentally a serious
> > problem in and of itself.  It provides DST facilities by hand, in a
> > static object, without using any of the usual methods for creating and
> > facilitating dst objects.
> >
> > Therefore every time someone makes an adjustment to common dst code,
> > this turd (and yes, it _is_ a turd) breaks.  Every single time.
> >
> > So in the long term, instead of polishing this turd, let's get rid of
> > it.
> 
> I'm getting reports of this bug as well; is anyone working on removing
> the bridge fake dst?

I don't see how we can ever remove it (unless we remove the
call-iptables feature of course).

      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-13 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LNX.2.02.1701260627510.24491@maul.oc9.org>
     [not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.02.1701260927040.24491@maul.oc9.org>
2017-01-26 15:57   ` ip_rcv_finish() NULL pointer kernel panic Eric Dumazet
2017-01-26 16:02     ` Roy Keene
2017-01-26 16:24     ` Florian Westphal
2017-01-26 18:00       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-01-26 18:14         ` Eric Dumazet
2017-01-26 18:04       ` David Miller
2017-03-13 17:30         ` Dan Streetman
2017-03-13 17:39           ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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