netdev - Re: [PATCH] [SCTP]: Fix err_hdr assignment in sctp_init

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Message-Id: <1168457364.8248.6.camel@w-sridhar2.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:29:24 -0800
From:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCTP]: Fix err_hdr assignment in sctp_init_cause.

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 14:36 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:26:49 -0800
> 
> > [SCTP]: Fix err_hdr assignment in sctp_init_cause.
> >
> > The subh->err_hdr should point to the error header, not the data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks Sridahr.
> 
> Do we need this for the 2.6.x -stable branches too?

This bug was found during code review and is not critical
as err_hdr is not really used in the send path currently,
although this may change in future.

So we don't need this for -stable branches.

Thanks
Sridhar

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