netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] libnetlink: fix leak and using unused memory on error

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Date:   Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:54:49 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] libnetlink: fix leak and using unused memory on
 error

On 9/14/18 10:48 AM, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>> If an error happens in multi-segment message (tc only)
>> then report the error and stop processing further responses.
>> This also fixes refering to the buffer after free.
>>
>> The sequence check is not necessary here because the
>> response message has already been validated to be in
>> the window of the sequence number of the iov.
>>
>> Reported-by: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
>> Fixes: 7b2ee50c0cd5 ("hv_netvsc: common detach logic")

$ git show 7b2ee50c0cd5
fatal: ambiguous argument '7b2ee50c0cd5': unknown revision or path not
in the working tree.

but we knew that since iproute2 does not have hv_netsvc code. Copy and
paste error?