netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "openvswitch: potential NULL deref in sample()"

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:47:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org,
	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "openvswitch: potential NULL deref in sample()"

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:19:40 -0700

> This reverts commit 5b3e7e6cb5771bedda51cdb6f715d1da8cd9e644.
> 
> The problem that the original commit was attempting to fix can
> never happen in practice because validation is done one a per-flow
> basis rather than a per-packet basis.  Adding additional checks at
> runtime is unnecessary and inconsistent with the rest of the code.
> 
> CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>

Applied.
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