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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: kern/4044: kernel crashes when ip_output() is called with a NULL route argument
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The following reply was made to PR kern/4044; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: terzis@cs..ucla.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: kern/4044: kernel crashes when ip_output() is called with a NULL route argument
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 19:21:12 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 14:54:14 -0700 (PDT), terzis@cs..ucla.edu said:
 
 > When ip_output() in netinet/ip_output.c is called with a NULL route 
 > argument header the kernel crashes, because a test for a NULL argument
 > has been removed from this version of the code. 
 
 That is intentional.
 
 >> Fix:
 > Include a test for NULL route header.
 
 Correct fix: always give ip_output() a route.
 
 -GAWollman
 
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