netdev - Re: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in skb

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Message-ID: <4CF96A05.40908@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:07:01 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Andrej Ota <andrej@....si>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gvs@...os.net, Rami Rosen <ramirose@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in skb_dequeue

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 15:37 +0100, Andrej Ota a écrit :
>>>> Patch that works for me is below. Now I only hope I haven't
>>>> (re)introduced a memory leak...
>>
>>> Problem comes from commit 55c95e738da85 (fix return value of
>>> __pppoe_xmit() method)
...
> Rami, could you re-explain the rationale of your patch ?

I guess we could revert it in the meantime: it seems there might be
at least three threads (including bugzilla) with this problem.

Jarek P.
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