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Message-ID: <4F2B8348.3090305@profihost.ag>
Date:	Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:48:40 +0100
From:	Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	jwboyer@...il.com, hch@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	david@...morbit.com, stable@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c

Am 03.02.2012 01:42, schrieb Greg KH:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:39:57PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:15 +0100
>>
>>> David, what do you think ?
>>
>> I frankly don't care at this point.
>>
>> The only reasonable thing is if someone can successfully do the
>> backport, but if that's not possible there really isn't anything
>> reasonable we can do, all the other options have fatal negative
>> consequences which make them completely untenable.
> 
> I agree.  I'm pretty sure the distros basing their releases on 3.0 are
> aware of this issue, so perhaps someone could dig through those tree and
> see how they resolved this issue, if at all.
> 
I haven't found any distris which has backported something regarding
this issue.

Also it seems that there's only Ubuntu using 3.0. Debian and others have
already moved to 3.1 / 3.2. Anything i miss?

I've made my own backport of the patch and removed at least 1-2
dependencies. Anybody interested?

Stefan
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