netdev - Re: [PATCH] [XFRM] AUDIT: Fix audit buffer leakage in error path.

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Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:40:29 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [XFRM] AUDIT: Fix audit buffer leakage in error path.

In article <20070212.152317.92582928.davem@...emloft.net> (at Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:23:17 -0800 (PST)), David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> says:

> From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:34:29 +0900 (JST)
> 
> > Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> 
> Oh yes.  I noticed this too while working with Joy Latten's OOPS fix
> for this function.
> 
> Event types other than those 4 mentioned in the switch() statement are
> illegal and should never be passed in.  It is probably better to BUG()
> on this situation rather than try to handle the log buffer leakage.

Okay, I agree and I withdraw my patch.

--yoshfuji
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