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From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:47:09 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slip: Check if rstate is initialized before uncompressing
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 04:21:25PM +0530, Tejaswi Tanikella wrote:
> On receiving a packet the state index points to the rstate which must be
> used to fill up IP and TCP headers. But if the state index points to a
> rstate which is unitialized, i.e. filled with zeros, it gets stuck in an
> infinite loop inside ip_fast_csum trying to compute the ip checsum of a
> header with zero length.
> 
Hi Tejaswi,

Patches aren't reviewed on linux-ppp but on netdev. You should post
your patch there.

Regards,

Guillaume