netdev - Re: pull request [net]: batman-adv 20160216

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Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:37:18 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	a@...table.cc
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: pull request [net]: batman-adv 20160216

From: Antonio Quartulli <a@...table.cc>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:01:25 +0800

> this pull request is intended for net.
> 
> Two of the fixes included in this patchset prevent a wrong memory
> access - it was triggered when removing an object from a list
> after it was already free'd due to bad reference counting.
> This misbehaviour existed for both the gw_node and the
> orig_node_vlan object and has been fixed by Sven Eckelmann.
> 
> The last patch fixes our interface feasibility check and prevents
> it from looping indefinitely when two net_device objects
> reference each other via iflink index (i.e. veth pair), by
> Andrew Lunn

Pulled, thanks Antonio.

And thanks for the heads up about the potential merge issues, I'll watch
for that.