netdev - Re: [patch v2] bluetooth: handle l2cap_create_connless

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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:27:52 -0300
From:	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@...ovan.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	error27@...il.com, marcel@...tmann.org,
	andrei.emeltchenko@...ia.com, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] bluetooth: handle l2cap_create_connless_pdu() errors

Hi David,

* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> [2010-04-26 11:12:59 -0700]:

> From: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@...ovan.org>
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:09:19 -0300
> 
> > Hi Dan,
> > 
> > * Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> [2010-04-26 13:36:27 +0200]:
> > 
> >> l2cap_create_connless_pdu() can sometimes return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) or
> >> ERR_PTR(-EFAULT).
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> >> ---
> >> In v2 I wrote the patch on top of Gustavo Padovon's devel tree
> 
> This is the kind of bug that could cause a crash if the path actually
> executes.
> 
> Therefore it tires me that that submitter was told to regenerate this
> patch against some devel tree that is -next bound, when in fact this
> is the kind of fix that warrants inclusion right now into net-2.6

My bad here. So I think we should pick the first version of the Dan's patch. 
It applies against bluetooth-testing right now and then against net-2.6 too.

Marcel, is that ok to you?

> 
> Marcel, please do whatever magic you need to so I can get this into
> Linus's tree as I did the rest of the ERR_PTR() fixes from Dan already.
> No reason to treat Bluetooth special and defer these fixes to -next.
> 
> Thanks.

-- 
Gustavo F. Padovan
http://padovan.org
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