netdev - Re: [patch v2] bluetooth: handle l2cap_create_connless

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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:05:26 +0200
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	gustavo@...ovan.org, error27@...il.com,
	andrei.emeltchenko@...ia.com, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] bluetooth: handle l2cap_create_connless_pdu() errors

Hi Dave,

> > * Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> [2010-04-26 13:36:27 +0200]:
> > 
> >> l2cap_create_connless_pdu() can sometimes return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) or
> >> ERR_PTR(-EFAULT).
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> >> ---
> >> In v2 I wrote the patch on top of Gustavo Padovon's devel tree
> 
> This is the kind of bug that could cause a crash if the path actually
> executes.
> 
> Therefore it tires me that that submitter was told to regenerate this
> patch against some devel tree that is -next bound, when in fact this
> is the kind of fix that warrants inclusion right now into net-2.6
> 
> Marcel, please do whatever magic you need to so I can get this into
> Linus's tree as I did the rest of the ERR_PTR() fixes from Dan already.
> No reason to treat Bluetooth special and defer these fixes to -next.

my bad here. I looked at the patch and thought it was only an issue
inside the development tree. So was letting Gustavo sort this out. You
are 100% right, this needs to be fixed right away. If you wanna take
this directly, then

Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>

Regards

Marcel


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