netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] [TPROXY] fixes a possible read from an unmapped location in the socket match

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Date:	Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:54:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bazsi@...abit.hu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] [TPROXY] fixes a possible read from an
 unmapped location in the socket match

From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@...abit.hu>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:16:53 +0100

> 	TIME_WAIT sockets need to be handled specially, and the socket match
> 	casted inet_timewait_sock instances to inet_sock, which are not
> 	compatible. Handle this special case by checking sk->sk_state.

There is no need to send this seperate version of the patch,
the bug fix will propagate automatically when I next merge
net-2.6 into net-next-2.6
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