On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 05:12:04PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:41:20 -0700
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     bridge: Reset IPCB when entering IP stack on NF_FORWARD
> > 
> > to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      bridge-reset-ipcb-when-entering-ip-stack-on-nf_forward.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> > From 0589d1f7a527e5f4c4c6d16b734cfed4e3608f1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:27:28 +0000
> > Subject: bridge: Reset IPCB when entering IP stack on NF_FORWARD
> > 
> > 
> > From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 6b1e960fdbd75dcd9bcc3ba5ff8898ff1ad30b6e ]
> > 
> > Whenever we enter the IP stack proper from bridge netfilter we
> > need to ensure that the skb is in a form the IP stack expects
> > it to be in.
> > 
> > The entry point on NF_FORWARD did not meet the requirements of
> > the IP stack, therefore leading to potential crashes/panics.
> > 
> > This patch fixes the problem.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> 
> There was recent followon patches to fix problems introduced
> by this problems. The parse code would crash when handed record
> route option but there was no route in this path.

Any hint as to what the git commit ids were of the patches that fixed
these issues that I should also queue up now?

thanks,

greg k-h

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