Re: gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2011-01-30 04:44:36
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2011-01-30 04:44:36
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:10:47 +1100
gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse On older kernels the VLAN code may zero skb->dev before dropping it and causing it to be reused by GRO. Unfortunately we didn't reset skb->dev in that case which causes the next GRO user to get a bogus skb->dev pointer. This particular problem no longer happens with the current upstream kernel due to changes in VLAN processing. However, for correctness we should still reset the skb->dev pointer in the GRO reuse function in case a future user does the same thing. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied, thanks Herbert.