netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ipv4: ip_tunnel: use net namespace from rtable not socket

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Message-ID: <552565DA.5010606@hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:31:06 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hannes@...essinduktion.org
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ipv4: ip_tunnel: use net namespace from
 rtable not socket

On 04/08/2015 09:09 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Date: Wed,  8 Apr 2015 17:01:22 +0200
>
>> The socket parameter might legally be NULL, thus sock_net is sometimes
>> causing a NULL pointer dereference. Using net_device pointer in dst_entry
>> is more reliable.
>>
>> Fixes: b6a7719aedd7e5c ("ipv4: hash net ptr into fragmentation bucket selection")
>> Reported-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
>> Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
>> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
>
> Applied.

Horses, barn doors, crossed i's and dotted t's but I can report that 
with that in place the problem I reported in "VxLAN system wedge in 
4.0.0-rc5+ from davem net-next?" no longer happens.

rick
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