netdev - Re: [RFC] net: remove erroneous sk null assignment in timestamping

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Message-ID: <20111008075924.GB2284@netboy.at.omicron.at>
Date:	Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:59:26 +0200
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: remove erroneous sk null assignment in timestamping

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 08:42:12PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Maybe that's how you can trigger it: have one thread turn on and off
> timestamping all the time, and another thread send frames all the time,
> then eventually you'll probably run into the kfree_skb() case there. If
> you ever manage to run into that case, it'll crash either when freeing
> this skb or when freeing the original.

Thats one weird app, but I get the point, and thanks for your
attention to my code.

Richard
 
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