netdev - Re: [PATCH 8/8] xfrm: Fix potential null pointer dereference in xdst_queue

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Date:	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:27:57 +0200
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] xfrm: Fix potential null pointer dereference in
 xdst_queue_output

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:36:27AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 13:04 +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > ---
> >  net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c |    9 +--------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
> > index e52cab3..f77c371 100644
> > --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
> > +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
> > @@ -320,10 +320,8 @@ static void xfrm_queue_purge(struct sk_buff_head *list)
> >  {
> >  	struct sk_buff *skb;
> >  
> > -	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(list)) != NULL) {
> > -		dev_put(skb->dev);
> > +	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(list)) != NULL)
> >  		kfree_skb(skb);
> > -	}
> >  }
> >  
> 
> xfrm_queue_purge() now looks a lot like skb_queue_purge() ;)
> 

Oh, indeed. Looks like I was too much focused on fixing this bug
to notice that this function looks familiar now ;)

I'll do a followup patch to remove xfrm_queue_purge() in favor of
skb_queue_purge() or I generate an updated pull request, depending
what David prefers.
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