linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.3 1/2] Revert "vrf: fix double free and memory corruption on register

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:49:12 -0700
From:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.3 1/2] Revert "vrf: fix double free and memory
 corruption on register_netdevice failure"

On 12/15/15 8:31 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This reverts commit b3abad339f8e268bb261e5844ab68b18a7797c29, which
> was an attempt to backport commit 7f109f7cc37108cba7243bc832988525b0d85909
> upstream.  The backport introduced a deadlock and other bugs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings<ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---

Best course of action -- revert the old and do over.

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
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