netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/04]: Fix axrpc/afs related bugs

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Message-ID: <463927B2.8030506@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 02:07:14 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	dhowells@...hat.com
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/04]: Fix axrpc/afs related bugs

Oops, typo in David's address.

David, please look at these patches (especially the last one) on netdev.
Thanks.

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> These patches fix two bugs introduced by the RXRPC patches. While looking
> at the other code that came in with these patches, I noticed it includes
> an entire rtnetlink client in the kernel, which doesn't seem to make much
> sense since all the information is available in much easier ways, so I've
> replaced it by two small helper functions that should do exactly the same.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something fundamental, please apply :)
> 
> 
>  fs/afs/Makefile           |    2 
>  fs/afs/cmservice.c        |    1 
>  fs/afs/internal.h         |    1 
>  fs/afs/netdevices.c       |   54 +++++
>  fs/afs/use-rtnetlink.c    |  473 ----------------------------------------------
>  include/linux/netdevice.h |    1 
>  net/core/dev.c            |   21 +-
>  net/netlink/af_netlink.c  |    6 
>  8 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 484 deletions(-)
> 
> Patrick McHardy (4):
>       [NETLINK]: Fix use after free in netlink_recvmsg
>       [AFS]: Fix memory leak in SRXAFSCB_GetCapabilities
>       [NET]: Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype
>       [AFS]: Replace rtnetlink client by direct dev_base walking
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