From: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus private pointer
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:48:27 +0100
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Hello,

> Surprise surprise.  The namespace seq patch missed two spots in
> AF_PACKET.
> 
> [PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus private pointer
> 
> The seq_open_net patch changed the meaning of seq->private.
> Unfortunately it missed two spots in AF_PACKET, which still
> used the old way of dereferencing seq->private, thus causing
> weird and wonderful crashes when reading /proc/net/packet.
> 
> This patch fixes them.

True :) It fixes both my x86 and sprac64. Thanks.

	Mariusz
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