linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix: Dereference pointer-value of sk_prot->memory

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Message-Id: <20131023.161539.1581232035449029458.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:15:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix: Dereference pointer-value of
 sk_prot->memory_pressure

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:55:18 -0700

> From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:49:21 -0700
> 
> 2e685cad57 (tcp_memcontrol: Kill struct tcp_memcontrol) falsly modified
> the access to memory_pressure of sk->sk_prot->memory_pressure. The patch
> did modify the memory_pressure-field of struct cg_proto, but not the one
> of struct proto.
> 
> So, the access to sk_prot->memory_pressure should not be changed.
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied, but I replaced "Fix: " with "net: " in the commit header line.
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