netdev - Re: panic with 2.6.28 while doing "ip -6 route"

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Chris Caputo <ccaputo@....net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: panic with 2.6.28 while doing "ip -6 route"

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I'm surprised that it's taken nearly 3 years for this bug to
> show itself.  It even survived a move from route.c :)
> 
> ipv6: Fix fib6_dump_table walker leak
> 
> When a fib6 table dump is prematurely ended, we won't unlink
> its walker from the list.  This causes all sorts of grief for
> other users of the list later.
> 
> Reported-by: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@....net>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
> index 29c7c99..52ee1dc 100644

I applied the patch, rebooted and performed about a hundred "ip -6 route | 
head" commands with the full v6 route table.  The fix works great!

Any chance of vectoring it for 2.6.28.x?

Thanks,
Chris
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