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SubjectRe: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6
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Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case
>> where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is
>> 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol number of
>> 0xff. Arguably that's wrong since PPP protocol 0xff is reserved, and
>> the RFC does envision the possibility of receiving frames where the
>> control field has values other than 0x03.
>
> Your fix is probably needed too. However, I think the issue that Patrick
> was trying to fix is the case where p[0] != PPP_ALLSTATIONS and therefore
> we'd still have a problem there.

Nevermind, I mixed up != with == so your patch is all we need.

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