netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/4] tipc: add net device to skb before UDP xmit

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Date:	Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:57:56 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richard.alpe@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/4] tipc: add net device to skb before UDP
 xmit

From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:20:40 +0100

> Prior to this patch enabling a IPv4 UDP bearer caused a null pointer
> dereference in iptunnel_xmit_stats(), when it tried to dereference the
> net device from the skb. To resolve this we now point the skb device
> to the net device resolved from the routing table.
> 
> Fixes: 039f50629b7f (ip_tunnel: Move stats update to iptunnel_xmit())
> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...il.com>

Applied.