On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 03:34:19PM +0300, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
> On 08/27/2011 01:01 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.32.46 release.
> > There are 19 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and
> > wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Monday, August 29, 2011, 12:00:00 UTC.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm-review/patch-2.6.32.46-rc1.gz
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> Hi,
>
> upstream commit d5aa407f59f5b83d2c50ec88f5bf56d40f1f8978 ("tunnels: fix
> netns vs proto registration ordering") , which was included in
> 2.6.32.44-longterm, was not backported correctly, and results in a NULL
> pointer dereference in ip6_tunnel.c for longterm kernels 2.6.32.44 and
> 2.6.32.45.
>
> The bug has been reported at the Gentoo [1] and Debian [2] bugzillas,
> and fixed in the latest grsec-patches [3], but I haven't found a report
> for this at the lkml (or at the kernel's bugzilla).
>
> The fix is trivial, and I think it can be included in 2.6.32.46, if
> possible.
> If you want, I can submit it with a new email to sta...@kernel.org.
Yes, please do so I can properly add it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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