netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6 (2nd try)] [TCP] MTUprobe: fix potential sk_send

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Message-Id: <20071119.232449.13837118.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:24:49 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6 (2nd try)] [TCP] MTUprobe: fix potential
 sk_send_head corruption

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:15:54 +0200 (EET)

> [PATCH] [TCP] MTUprobe: fix potential sk_send_head corruption
> 
> When the abstraction functions got added, conversion here was
> made incorrectly. As a result, the skb may end up pointing
> to skb which got included to the probe skb and then was freed.
> For it to trigger, however, skb_transmit must fail sending as
> well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied, thanks for catching this Ilpo.
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