Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:10:45 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: + oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc.patch added to -mm tree | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:45:05 +1100
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > > Shaper is actually OK. None of these hardware header callbacks > > should be invoked if the device is down. Yet, this is what is > > accidently being allowed in the AF_PACKET socket layer. > > Hmm, what if the device goes down after the check?
For the shaper case it's OK, because once a shaper is associated it's ->dev never goes back to NULL.
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