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Bug#597904: [PATCH] phonet: Restrict to initial namespace



From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:43:33 +0100

> The lifetime management for per-namespace state in phonet is broken in
> 2.6.32.  When a network namespace is destroyed it will crash
> (repeatably):
...
> This bug is known to be triggered by using Chromium (which
> creates a network namespace) and some Nokia phones (which trigger
> loading of phonet).
> 
> Reference: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=54617
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> ---
> I'm submitting this for 2.6.32 only.  The bug is reported to be fixed in
> later kernel versions, but it's not clear exactly which change fixed it
> or whether that is suitable for stable.  Rémi may be able to suggest a
> better way to fix this.

As far as I'm concerned:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>



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