linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net/3.9] ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_send

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	mschiffer@...verse-factory.net
Cc:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net/3.9] ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_send_redirect writing
 to the wrong skb

From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@...verse-factory.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:00:52 +0200

> On 05/31/2013 10:42 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
>> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:23:11 +0800
>> 
>>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Matthias Schiffer
>>> <mschiffer@...verse-factory.net> wrote:
>>>> Since some refactoring in 5f5a011, ndisc_send_redirect called
>>>> ndisc_fill_redirect_hdr_option on the wrong skb, leading to data corruption or
>>>> in the worst case a panic when the skb_put failed.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@...verse-factory.net>
>>>
>>>
>>> Good catch!
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
>> 
>> I've queued this up for -stable.
>> 
> 
> I saw that this was marked as 'not applicable' in the patchwork - it
> should still be applied to the net tree though. I hope my patch tag
> 'net/3.9' didn't cause any confusion, I meant net *and* 3.9.

It's in the -stable queue and it will be submitted, don't worry.

In this situation it means "not applicable" to net or net-next, sorry
for the confusion.

The way I work with the "stable" patchwork bundle is I process that
queue with state filtering off, so that the patch bundle I end up with
has every patch in that queue, regardless of state.
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