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Message-Id: <201205031232.27842.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Thu, 3 May 2012 12:32:27 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: skb_set_dev do not unconditionally drop ref to dst

On Thursday 03 May 2012, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 08:59:21 +0200
> 
> > If Arnd doesnt care to even reply, we can just revert his buggy
> > patch, instead of trying to understand and fix all issues.
> 
> Agreed, it's the best sounding solution by far.

I've tried to understand what I've done back then but also couldn't
remember, so I won't complain when it gets reverted.

For all I know I did this because it looked broken back then, but
I don't remember a specific way in which it could be exploited
to escape a namespace.

	Arnd
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