Re: 2.6.25-rc9: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[David Miller]

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:18:54 +0200

> [BRIDGE]: Fix crash in __ip_route_output_key with bridge netfilter
> 
> The bridge netfilter code attaches a fake dst_entry with a pointer to a
> fake net_device structure to skbs it passes up to IPv4 netfilter. This
> leads to crashes when the skb is passed to __ip_route_output_key when
> dereferencing the namespace pointer.
> 
> Since bridging can currently only operate in the init_net namespace,
> the easiest fix for now is to initialize the nd_net pointer of the
> fake net_device struct to &init_net.
> 
> Should fix bugzilla 10323: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10323
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>

Even though we don't have a test report back yet, I've applied this,
thanks Patrick.
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