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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-04-10 13:29:44 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-04-13 13:47:04 -0700
commit1e3769dc9ac7559010cfad5400896f24f1d33ad3 (patch)
tree087bb158ff5ac279e875a12a67e10068eabfcc46 /net/sched
parent9e45b2f0fd14f032b1fcbaae0b2548274a9cc9be (diff)
Fix IFB net driver input device crashes
[IFB]: Fix crash on input device removal The input_device pointer is not refcounted, which means the device may disappear while packets are queued, causing a crash when ifb passes packets with a stale skb->dev pointer to netif_rx(). Fix by storing the interface index instead and do a lookup where neccessary. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sched')
-rw-r--r--net/sched/act_mirred.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/act_mirred.c b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
index 483897271f15..7263a2e91db1 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_mirred.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ bad_mirred:
skb2->tc_verd = SET_TC_FROM(skb2->tc_verd, at);
skb2->dev = dev;
- skb2->input_dev = skb->dev;
+ skb2->iif = skb->dev->ifindex;
dev_queue_xmit(skb2);
spin_unlock(&m->tcf_lock);
return m->tcf_action;