A typo introduced by myself which leads to freeing the skb containing the netlink message when it should free the newly allocated skb for the reply.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: net-2.6.19/net/core/rtnetlink.c =================================================================== --- net-2.6.19.orig/net/core/rtnetlink.c 2006-08-30 13:14:48.000000000 +0200 +++ net-2.6.19/net/core/rtnetlink.c 2006-08-31 23:21:28.000000000 +0200 @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(nskb, dev, iw, iw_buf_len, RTM_NEWLINK, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0, 0); if (err <= 0) { - kfree_skb(skb); + kfree_skb(nskb); goto errout; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html