Re: ip_rcv_finish() NULL pointer and possibly related Oopses

From: Michael Marineau
Date: Thu Aug 27 2015 - 12:47:52 EST


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:40 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Michael Marineau <michael.marineau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:16:06 -0700
>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Make sure you backported commit
>>> 10e2eb878f3ca07ac2f05fa5ca5e6c4c9174a27a
>>> ("udp: fix dst races with multicast early demux")
>>
>> Oh, interesting. Looks like that patch didn't get CC'd to stable
>> though, is there a reason for that or just oversight?
>
> All networking bug fixes are submitted to -stable by hand by me at a
> time of my choosing. We do not use the "CC: stable" facility, as I
> feel it pushes patches into -stable way too quickly and before the
> change gets sufficient exposure for regressions in Linus's tree.
>
> The patch in question got submitted last night.

Great, thank you!
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