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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:09:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tun: Fix crash with non-GSO users

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:22:58 +0800

> tun: Fix crash with non-GSO users
> 
> When I made the tun driver use non-linear packets as the preferred
> option, it broke non-GSO users because they would end up allocating
> a completely non-linear packet, which triggers a crash when we call
> eth_type_trans.
> 
> This patch reverts non-GSO users to using linear packets and adds
> a check to ensure that GSO users can't cause crashes in the same
> way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks a lot Herbert.
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