* Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-01-04 10:39 > When inserting new nodes into a fib6 tree, the leaf pointer > is first to NULL and later corrected when the key gets > assigned. However, the tree is not locked for this period > of time, therefore nodes with an invalid leaf pointer > are accessible. Lookups that occur during this period of time > expect a valid leaf pointer and thus crash. > > This patch sets the leaf pointer to ip6_null_entry during > this critical period of time.
Ignore this patch for now, the description is certainly inaccurate even though it seems to fix the issue. - 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