# 2.4: \[NETLINK\] Fix bogus mc\_list deletion

- From: Herbert Xu \<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au\>
- Date: 2005-03-29 11:23:44 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2005/03/10751156
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2005/03/10751156/t.md

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:11:45PM +0900, Tim Burress wrote:
> 
> So not only is the socket dead, it's not even a Netlink socket. 
> Apparently a socket originally allocated to Netlink was not unlinked 
> from the mc_list after it was freed, but offhand I can't see how that 
> could happen.

Thanks for tracking this issue down.

Looks like I made a nasty typo in the 2.4 backport.  When entries
are unlinked from mc_list, we link the list up with the regular
hash bucket list by using next instead of bind_next!

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Marcelo, you'll want this to be in the next rc.

Cheers,
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