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Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent access to uninitialized fib_table_hash via /proc/net/ipv6_route

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2012-06-16 08:13:32

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
We will now initialize fib6_init() before ip6_net_route_net_ops is registerd.

This causes fib6_net_init() to run before net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry it
initialized.

Any route lookup will crash when we dereference a root's ->leaf
because it will be NULL.
I've decided to revert this change for now.
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