netdev - Re: ipv6: handle -EFAULT from skb_copy

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Date:   Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:21:11 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     davej@...emonkey.org.uk
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: ipv6: handle -EFAULT from skb_copy_bits

From: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:16:22 -0500

> By setting certain socket options on ipv6 raw sockets, we can confuse the
> length calculation in rawv6_push_pending_frames triggering a BUG_ON.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Dave.