netdev - Re: [PATCH ipsec] xfrm: properly handle invalid states as an error

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Date:	Thu, 23 May 2013 01:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	timo.teras@....fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, roy.qing.li@...il.com,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec] xfrm: properly handle invalid states as an error

From: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:40:47 +0300

> The error exit path needs err explicitly set. Otherwise it
> returns success and the only caller, xfrm_output_resume(),
> would oops in skb_dst(skb)->ops derefence as skb_dst(skb) is
> NULL.
> 
> Bug introduced in commit bb65a9cb (xfrm: removes a superfluous
> check and add a statistic).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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