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Bug 459063

Summary: pppoe: Fix skb_unshare_check call position [rhel-4.8]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Pirko <jpirko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.8CC: jpirko, rkhan, vgoyal
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Bug Depends On: 459062    
Bug Blocks: 461304    

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-08-14 06:42:35 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #459062 +++

Description of problem:
The skb_unshare_check call needs to be made before pskb_may_pull, not after.

--- Additional comment from eteo on 2008-08-14 02:38:55 EDT ---

Proposed upstream patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=31bac44468257986484703cc09da8a9dcae88a36

--- Additional comment from eteo on 2008-08-14 02:40:32 EDT ---

Created an attachment (id=314284)
Upstream patch for this issue
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2008-09-03 13:14:42 UTC 
Updating PM score.
Comment 2 Vivek Goyal 2008-09-25 13:21:46 UTC 
Committed in 78.11.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-18 19:32:01 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html