set fake_rtable's dst to NULL to avoid kernel Oops
authorPeter Huang (Peng) <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:12:51 +0000 (20:12 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:42:03 +0000 (14:42 +0100)
[ Upstream commit a881e963c7fe1f226e991ee9bbe8907acda93294 ]

bridge: set fake_rtable's dst to NULL to avoid kernel Oops

when bridge is deleted before tap/vif device's delete, kernel may
encounter an oops because of NULL reference to fake_rtable's dst.
Set fake_rtable's dst to NULL before sending packets out can solve
this problem.

v4 reformat, change br_drop_fake_rtable(skb) to {}

v3 enrich commit header

v2 introducing new flag DST_FAKE_RTABLE to dst_entry struct.

[ Use "do { } while (0)" for nop br_drop_fake_rtable()
  implementation -DaveM ]

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huang <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

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