netdev - Re: [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix parameter order of hlist_add

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Date:	Sat, 16 Aug 2014 19:19:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sven@...fation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix parameter order of hlist_add_behind

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:19:39 +0200

> 1d023284c31a4e40a94d5bbcb7dbb7a35ee0bcbc ("list: fix order of arguments for
> hlist_add_after(_rcu)") was incorrectly rebased on top of
> d9124268d84a836f14a6ead54ff9d8eee4c43be5 ("batman-adv: Fix out-of-order
> fragmentation support"). The parameter order change of the rebased patch was
> not re-applied as expected. This causes a memory leak and can cause crashes
> when out-of-order packets are received. hlist_add_behind will try to access the
> uninitalized list pointers of frag_entry_new to find the previous/next entry
> and may modify/read random memory locations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied, thank you.
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