netdev - Re: bridge: Fix update

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Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:35:46 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Philip Craig <philipc@...pgear.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridge: Fix update_pmtu crash with GRE

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Looks like this fell through the cracks:
> 
> bridge: Fix update_pmtu crash with GRE
> 
> As GRE tries to call the update_pmtu function on skb->dst and
> bridge supplies an skb->dst that has a NULL ops field, all is
> not well.
> 
> This patch fixes this by giving the bridge device an ops field
> with an update_pmtu function.  For the moment I've left all
> other fields blank but we can fill them in later should the
> need arise.
> 
> Based on report and patch by Philip Craig.

Applied, thanks Herbert.

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