On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 21:34 -0400, David Miller wrote:

From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:50:51 -0700

quoted

On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 16:52 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

quoted

It has recently turned up that we have a number of long standing bugs
in the network stack cleanup code with use of the loopback device
after it has been freed that have not turned up because in most cases
the storage allocated to the loopback device is not reused, when those
accesses happen.

Set looback_dev to NULL to trigger oopses instead of silent data corrupt
when we hit this class of bug.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
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Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

I'd like to apply this to 'net', any objections?

No objections from me.