This patch fixes a Oops in arp_rcv() when proxy-arp is used --- linux/net/ipv4/arp.c.orig Thu Jun 28 17:29:10 2001 +++ linux/net/ipv4/arp.c Tue Jul 3 19:37:25 2001 @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ (addr_type == RTN_UNICAST && rt->u.dst.dev != dev && (IN_DEV_PROXY_ARP(in_dev) || pneigh_lookup(&arp_tbl, &tip, dev, 0)))) { n = neigh_event_ns(&arp_tbl, sha, &sip, dev); - neigh_release(n); + if (n) neigh_release(n); if (skb->stamp.tv_sec == 0 || skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST ||