From a881e963c7fe1f226e991ee9bbe8907acda93294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Peter Huang (Peng)" Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:12:51 +0000 Subject: set fake_rtable's dst to NULL to avoid kernel Oops bridge: set fake_rtable's dst to NULL to avoid kernel Oops when bridge is deleted before tap/vif device's delete, kernel may encounter an oops because of NULL reference to fake_rtable's dst. Set fake_rtable's dst to NULL before sending packets out can solve this problem. v4 reformat, change br_drop_fake_rtable(skb) to {} v3 enrich commit header v2 introducing new flag DST_FAKE_RTABLE to dst_entry struct. [ Use "do { } while (0)" for nop br_drop_fake_rtable() implementation -DaveM ] Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Peter Huang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/bridge/br_forward.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/bridge/br_forward.c') diff --git a/net/bridge/br_forward.c b/net/bridge/br_forward.c index 61f65344e71..a2098e3de50 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_forward.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_forward.c @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ int br_dev_queue_push_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb) kfree_skb(skb); } else { skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN); + br_drop_fake_rtable(skb); dev_queue_xmit(skb); } -- cgit v1.2.3