Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipvs: Verify that IP_VS protocol has beenregistered

From: Simon Horman
Date: Thu Apr 05 2012 - 19:19:54 EST


On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:24:33PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> The registration of a protocol might fail, there were no checks
> and all registrations were assumed to be correct. This lead to
> NULL ptr dereferences when apps tried registering.

Thanks, I will queue up this fix.

Do you have a real-world example of this failing, if so it
might be worth pushing your change into stable.
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