AX.25 and 2.4.x problems probably fixed...

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Hi,

it pays to read ChangeLogs thoroughly... Alan mentions

o Fix writing to freed memory in ax25_ip

in his notes for the 2.4.5-ac kernel series. And indeed:

--- linux.vanilla/net/ax25/ax25_ip.c Fri Dec 29 22:35:47 2000
+++ linux.ac/net/ax25/ax25_ip.c Thu May 24 23:20:42 2001
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
                        dst_c = *dst;
 
                        skb_pull(ourskb, AX25_HEADER_LEN - 1); /* Keep PID */
- skb->nh.raw = skb->data;
+ ourskb->nh.raw = ourskb->data;
 
                        ax25_send_frame(ourskb, ax25_dev->values[AX25_VALUES_PACLEN], &src_c, &dst_c, route->digipeat, dev);

(Careful: patch cut & pasted, whitespaces damaged)

Ouch. Kudos to the person who found it.

73,

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