netdev - Re: [Bug 11633] Kernel panic after patch f3994eceebf64cf356a82ffb2718ef538eb8d4f4

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Date:	Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 11633] Kernel panic after patch
 f3994eceebf64cf356a82ffb2718ef538eb8d4f4

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:25:54 +0800

> net: BUG instead of corrupting memory in pskb_expand_head
> 
> If the caller of pskb_expand_head specifies a negative nhead
> we'll silently overwrite other people's memory.  This patch
> makes it BUG instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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