Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:35:58 +0000 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: NULL pointer dereference in mainline and next |
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:33:24PM +0000, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le lundi 28 novembre 2011 à 14:18 +0000, Will Deacon a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > Commit f04565dd ("dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops") requires a struct > > dev_iter_state to be allocated for the seq_file->private member, as that is > > used to implement the name hash. > > > > Unfortunately, the dev_mcast code wasn't updated and so only allocates space > > for a seq_net_private, leading to the following NULL dereference (removed > > static inline annotations to get sane backtrace):
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> Anton Blanchard already provided a fix for this problem. > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/127931/
Ok, great - as long as it gets fixed!
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