Re: [PATCH rdma] infiniband: call ipv6 route lookup via the stub interface

[Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 11:20 +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> The infiniband address handle can be triggered to resolve an ipv6
> address in response to MAD packets, regardless of the ipv6
> module being disabled via the kernel command line argument.
> 
> That will cause a call into the ipv6 routing code, which is not
> initialized, and a conseguent oops.
> 
> This commit addresses the above issue replacing the direct lookup
> call with an indirect one via the ipv6 stub, which is properly
> initialized according to the ipv6 status (e.g. if ipv6 is
> disabled, the routing lookup fails gracefully)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Thanks Paolo, applied.  I also added a Cc: to stable for kernel 3.12+
since that's when the stub was added.

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