netdev - Re: [Bug 42809] New: kernel panic when receiving an ipsec packet

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Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:17:23 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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

Le jeudi 23 février 2012 à 15:11 -0500, David Miller a écrit :
> 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.

I did have this idea but refrained because this kind of things is harder
to backport to stable kernels.

I'll make a cleanup in net-next if you agree ?



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