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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:11:15 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: eric.dumazet@...il.com Cc: darkbasic@...uxsystems.it, netdev@...r.kernel.org, openadsl-users@...ts.sourceforge.net, openadsl-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, 660804@...s.debian.org, support@...verse.com.au, support@...ksolidelectronics.com Subject: Re: [Bug 42809] New: kernel panic when receiving an ipsec packet From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:36:26 +0100 > [PATCH] ipsec: be careful of non existing mac headers > > Nicollo Belli reported ipsec crashes in case we handle a frame without > mac header (atm in his case) > > Before copying mac header, better make sure it is present. > > Bugzilla reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42809 > > Reported-by: Niccolò Belli <darkbasic@...uxsystems.it> > Tested-by: Niccolò Belli <darkbasic@...uxsystems.it> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> Three instances of the same piece of code, maybe a helper function is appropriate at that point? :-) You might even get ambitious and add a big comment to that helper function explaining the situation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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