Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:08:40 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: NULL pointer dereference in mainline and next | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:35:58 +0000
> 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): > > [...] > >> Anton Blanchard already provided a fix for this problem. >> >> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/127931/ > > Ok, great - as long as it gets fixed!
Please in the future report networking bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org as that will reach the largest number of networking developers.
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