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Message-ID: <20130904005157.GG8262@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Sep 2013 18:51:57 -0600
From:	Jean Sacren <sakiwit@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: ipv6: tcp: fix potential use after free in
 tcp_v6_do_rcv

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:29:12 -0700
>
> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:59 -0600, Jean Sacren wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> > Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:35:17 -0700
> > >
> > > How did you get your conclusion ?
> > 
> > If one changes one line of code, doesn't one own that line?
> > 
> 
> 'Owning' like he is the guy who can sell it ? OK I understand now
> so many people send 'cleanups' ;)

'Owning' like he is the guy who is responsible for the change. Whether
you understand it or not, that's your own business.

The idea was by taking one example to determine who is really to blame
for: Is the one passing on the bug responsible? Thanks to Daniel
Borkmann for the answer.

-- 
Jean Sacren
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