Re: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in skb_dequeue

From: Jarek Poplawski
Date: Fri Dec 03 2010 - 17:07:15 EST


Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le vendredi 03 dÃcembre 2010 Ã 15:37 +0100, Andrej Ota a Ãcrit :
>>>> Patch that works for me is below. Now I only hope I haven't
>>>> (re)introduced a memory leak...
>>
>>> Problem comes from commit 55c95e738da85 (fix return value of
>>> __pppoe_xmit() method)
...
> Rami, could you re-explain the rationale of your patch ?

I guess we could revert it in the meantime: it seems there might be
at least three threads (including bugzilla) with this problem.

Jarek P.
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