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Re: ERRATA Re: [PATCH] fix for netfilter/nat/pppoe crashes (hopefully)

To: rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rusty Russell)
Subject: Re: ERRATA Re: [PATCH] fix for netfilter/nat/pppoe crashes (hopefully)
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:13:25 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc: davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, marc@xxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <E15SBXD-0002uf-00@localhost> from "Rusty Russell" at Aug 2, 1 04:00:24 pm
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hello!

> Now, if Marc is seeing this, and noone can find a flaw in my logic,
> then I'd say that someone else is mangling a packet without doing (see
> ipip.c):
> 
>               nf_conntrack_put(skb->nfct);
>               skb->nfct = NULL;
> 
> Please find them and hit them hard...

Good spot. I try to force people to copy this code from tunnels,
but they prefer to copy from loopback. It is just shorter. :-)

BTW what's about loopback? It does not! Is nfct fpassed through loopback
used in some way? If it is not, it is better to add this there.

Alexey

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