Re: [PATCH]: net: ipv6: fix oops in inet_putpeer()

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:32:31 +0200 (MEST)

> The attached patch fixes an oops in inet_putpeer(). Please see the
> changelog entry for details.
> 
> An alternative fix would be to check whether rt6_peer_ptr() returns
> NULL before invoking inet_putpeer(), but properly initializing the
> peer looks cleaner to me.

This is fine for now, applied, thanks Patrick.

There was a built-in assumption that xfrm_fill_dst() would run to
completion before we'd try to release these things, because there in
xfrm6_policy.c's xfrm6_fill_dst, we'd do the rt6_transfer_peer().

But that's obviously not the case if errors happen meanwhile.
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