netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ipmr/ip6mr: prevent out-of-bounds vif

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Date:	Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:34:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@....6wind.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipmr/ip6mr: prevent out-of-bounds vif_table access

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@....6wind.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:19:34 +0100

> When a multicast packet arrived in ip6_mr_input(), if there is no
> cache ip6mr_cache_unresolved() will be called and this function will
> add an entry with parent == 65535.
> 
> And the second problem is that when a vif is removed, no cleanup is
> made in cache entry. Hence, we can have a cache entry which points to
> an invalid vif (dev is set ot NULL).

I've applied your fix, thanks Nicolas.
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