netdev - Re: [PATCH] gre: fix netns vs proto registration ordering

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Message-Id: <20100216.151410.176747254.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:14:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	adobriyan@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gre: fix netns vs proto registration ordering

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:57:44 +0200

> GRE protocol receive hook can be called right after protocol addition is done.
> If netns stuff is not yet initialized, we're going to oops in
> net_generic().
> 
> This is remotely oopsable if ip_gre is compiled as module and packet
> comes at unfortunate moment of module loading.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6
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