From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:52:27 -0700

Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] writes:

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

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

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

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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.

No objects from me I just hadn't seen it as a bug fix, but I guess it
sort of is.

Ok, done.