Re: [PATCH v4] set fake_rtable's dst to NULL to avoid kernel Oops

[David Miller]

From: "Peter Huang(Peng)" <peter.huangpeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:12:51 +0800

> 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.
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Huang <peter.huangpeng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, although I changed to nop br_drop_fake_rtable() implementation
to use "do { } while (0)" instead of just plain "{ }".
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