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Revision d9c199ee781fa874e6feb4c56ae3d0e19f7f82a6 authored by Linas Vepstas on 20 February 2007, 22:41:03 UTC, committed by Jeff Garzik on 27 February 2007, 09:16:03 UTC
It appears that under certain circumstances, a race will result
in a double-free of an skb. This patch null's out the skb pointer
upon the skb free, avoiding the inadvertent deref of bogus data.
The next patch fixes the actual race.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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History
Tip revision: d9c199ee781fa874e6feb4c56ae3d0e19f7f82a6 authored by Linas Vepstas on 20 February 2007, 22:41:03 UTC
spidernet: fix racy double-free of skb
Tip revision: d9c199e
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