netdev - Re: bridge/netfilter: regression in 2.6.39.1

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Date:	Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:31:10 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridge/netfilter: regression in 2.6.39.1

On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 21:34 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le vendredi 03 juin 2011 à 21:21 +0200, Alexander Holler a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm getting a oops in the bridge code in br_change_mtu() with 2.6.39.1. 
> > The patch below seems to fix that.
> > 
> > I'm not sure about the usage of dst_cow_metrics_generic() in 
> > fake_dst_ops, but after having a quick look at it seems to be ok to use 
> > that here.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Alexander
> > 
> > -----
> >  From 3c1d5951af73389798afeea672ec224e195b8e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 20:43:06 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] bridge: add dst_cow_metrics_generic to fake_dst_ops
> > 
> > Commit 42923465fb8d025a2b5153f2e7ab1e6e1058bf00 does here what it
> > should prevent, it introduces NULL a dereference.
> > 
> 
> I cant find this commit in known trees. Could you give the real commit
> id and its title ?
[...]

It's your commit 33eb9873a283a2076f2b5628813d5365ca420ea9, applied to
2.6.39.

Ben.

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