netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: fix cipso packet validation when !NETLABEL

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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul@...l-moore.com
Cc:	seif@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, dima@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: fix cipso packet validation when !NETLABEL

From: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:12:47 -0400

> On Saturday, October 12, 2013 10:21:50 PM Seif Mazareeb wrote:
>> When CONFIG_NETLABEL is disabled, the cipso_v4_validate() function could
>> loop forever in the main loop if opt[opt_iter +1] == 0, this will causing a
>> kernel crash in an SMP system, since the CPU executing this function will
>> stall /not respond to IPIs.
>> 
>> This problem can be reproduced by running the IP Stack Integrity Checker
>> (http://isic.sourceforge.net) using the following command on a Linux machine
>> connected to DUT:
>> 
>> "icmpsic -s rand -d <DUT IP address> -r 123456"
>> wait (1-2 min)
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Seif Mazareeb <seif@...vell.com>
> 
> Thanks for sticking with this.
> 
> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>

This patch, like all the others Seif submitted, has been corrupted by
his email client and is this unusable.
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