netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/7] atm: [br2684] Fix oops due to skb->dev being NULL

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:15:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	chas@....nrl.navy.mil
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/7] atm: [br2684] Fix oops due to skb->dev
 being NULL

From: "chas williams - CONTRACTOR" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:26:51 -0400

> please apply to net-2.6.
> 
> commit d1a3f097e4683798cc15c8306fa323bef40fe6a6
> Author: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@...2.net>
> Date:   Sat Jun 14 16:46:14 2008 -0400
> 
>     atm: [br2684] Fix oops due to skb->dev being NULL
>     
>     It happens that if a packet arrives in a VC between the call to open it on
>     the hardware and the call to change the backend to br2684, br2684_regvcc
>     processes the packet and oopses dereferencing skb->dev because it is
>     NULL before the call to br2684_push().
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@...2.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>

Applied.
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