linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: frag, fix race conditions in LRU list maintenance

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Message-ID: <51888F93.3030300@openvz.org>
Date:	Tue, 07 May 2013 09:22:27 +0400
From:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	brouer@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	fw@...len.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: frag, fix race conditions in LRU list maintenance

David Miller wrote:
> From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer<brouer@...hat.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 09:33:18 +0200
>
>> This a good fix, and better than my earlier attempt at fixing this.
>   ...
>> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer<brouer@...hat.com>
>
> Applied, but this patch was generated against a very old tree,
> one before the q->net->nqueues stuff was added.
>
> I sorted out the conflicts but someone needs to double-check
> my work.

All right. Sorry, my patch is against 3.9

Seems like this bug allows to crash kernel remotely.
Should I send it to stable@ for including into 3.9.y or
you already have a bunch of patches for it?
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