This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dst: catch uninitialized metrics
to the 2.6.39-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:
dst-catch-uninitialized-metrics.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a6662b9379dca82b365b4ea61b5d202ca1ed5975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:50:52 -0400
Subject: dst: catch uninitialized metrics
From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 1f37070d3ff325827c6213e51b57f21fd5ac9d05 ]
Catch cases where dst_metric_set() and other functions are called
but _metrics is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
include/net/dst.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ static inline u32 *dst_metrics_write_ptr
{
unsigned long p = dst->_metrics;
+ BUG_ON(!p);
+
if (p & DST_METRICS_READ_ONLY)
return dst->ops->cow_metrics(dst, p);
return __DST_METRICS_PTR(p);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
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