Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:46:11 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Possible bug in net/ipv4/route.c? | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:29:28 +0800
> bridge: Clear IPCB before possible entry into IP stack > > The bridge protocol lives dangerously by having incestuous relations > with the IP stack. In this instance an abomination has been created > where a bogus IPCB area from a bridged packet leads to a crash in > the IP stack because it's interpreted as IP options. > > This patch papers over the problem by clearing the IPCB area in that > particular spot. To fix this properly we'd also need to parse any > IP options if present but I'm way too lazy for that. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied, thanks a lot!
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