Re: 2.2.x bug...

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 17:20 +0200 1999-06-04, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Joel Klecker said:
> > At 11:52 +0200 1999-06-04, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > >Alan Cox has posted the fix to bugtraq. The fix is in Alan's 
> > 2.2.9-ac1 patch
> > >available from any kernel.org mirror in the /pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2
> > >directory..
> >
> > That is not true, 2.2.9-ac1 came out before the DOS was discovered.
> Hmm... so why is the fix there? Perhaps it the bug wasn't there at all.
> The excerpt below is from the net/ipv4/ip_options.c from -ac1:
>
> error:
> 	if (skb) {
> 		icmp_send(skb, ICMP_PARAMETERPROB, 0, htonl((pp_ptr-iph)<<24));
> 		kfree_skb(skb);
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                               Removing that is the fix.
> 	}
> 	return -EINVAL;
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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