netdev - Re: [net-next, 1/3] seg6: verify srh pointer in get

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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:45:12 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     andrea.mayer@...roma2.it
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        dav.lebrun@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next, 1/3] seg6: verify srh pointer in get_srh()

From: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@...roma2.it>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:29:10 +0100

> pskb_may_pull may change pointers in header. For this reason, it is
> mandatory to reload any pointer that points into skb header.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@...roma2.it>

This is a bug fix and must be separated out and submitted to 'net'.

Then you must wait until 'net' is merged into 'net-next' so that you
can cleanly resubmit the other changes in this series which add the
new features.

Actually, patch #2 looks like a bug fix as well.