"David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:08:53 -0700 > >> Analysis: >> Currently tcp_v6_send_synack is never called with a dst entry >> so dst always comes in as NULL. >> >> ip6_dst_lookup calls ip6_route_output which calls dst_hold >> before it returns the dst entry. Neither xfrm_lookup >> nor tcp_make_synack consume the dst entry so we still have >> a dst_entry with a bumped refrence count at the end of >> this function. >> >> Therefore we need to call dst_release just before we return >> just like tcp_v4_send_synack does. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Applied, and I actually took care of the DCCP IPV6 case of > this bug as well, since the DCCP code was simply copy&pasted > from the TCP ipv6 stuff you are fixing here. > > Thanks a lot.
Welcome, and thanks for the DCCP IPV6 fix as well. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
