netdev - Re: ipv6: Plug sk_buff leak in ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6

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Message-Id: <20090327.001830.126379447.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:18:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesper.nilsson@...s.com
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mikael.starvik@...s.com
Subject: Re: ipv6: Plug sk_buff leak in ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c)

From: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:38:53 +0100

> Commit 778d80be52699596bf70e0eb0761cf5e1e46088d
> (ipv6: Add disable_ipv6 sysctl to disable IPv6 operaion on specific interface)
> seems to have introduced a leak of sk_buff's for ipv6 traffic,
> at least in some configurations where idev is NULL, or when ipv6
> is disabled via sysctl.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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