netdev - Re: pull request net: batman-adv 2013-05-09

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Date:	Sat, 11 May 2013 16:24:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ordex@...istici.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: pull request net: batman-adv 2013-05-09

From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@...istici.org>
Date: Thu,  9 May 2013 12:56:43 +0200

> here you have four fixes intended for net.
> 
> 1/4 fixes the parsing of a string sent from userspace in order to avoid random
> memory access in case of string length of 0.
> 
> 2/4 adds a check for the return value of pskb_trim_rcsum() in order to stop
> processing the skb in case of failure.
> 
> 3/4 prevents DAT (the Distributed ARP Table) to send cached ARP replies when
> both the source and the destination of the snooped ARP request are local clients
> (meaning: directly connected to the node). This can confuse a bridge where
> batman-adv is enslaved.
> 
> 4/4 fix a race condition in the main clean up procedure by reordering
> sub-components freeing function invocations.
> 
> Please pull or let me know if there is any problem.

Pulled, thanks Antonio.
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