Re: [PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus privatepointer

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Dec 16 2007 - 17:04:52 EST


From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:41:20 +0800

> [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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-2.6.25, thanks Herbert.
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