netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in input path.

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Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:08:46 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in input path.

Le mardi 27 septembre 2011 à 12:34 -0700, Ben Greear a écrit :
> On 09/27/2011 12:16 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: greearb@...delatech.com
> > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:58:17 -0700
> >
> >> From: Ben Greear<greearb@...delatech.com>
> >>
> >> Have to free the skb before returning if we fail
> >> the fib lookup.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear<greearb@...delatech.com>
> >
> > Applied, thanks.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> This bug was introduced in 2.6.35, I believe, so should probably send
> this to stable as well.
> 

A good way to handle this is to include in the changelog of the patch
the reference on faulty commit, to ease David and stable teams work.

Commit d1db275dd3f6
(ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables)

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