Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: correct dropwatch false positive in ip_local_deliver_finish

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 11:18 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> I had a report recently of a user trying to use dropwatch to localise some frame
> loss, and they were getting false positives.  Turned out they were using a user
> space SCTP stack that used raw sockets to grab frames.  When we don't have a
> registered protocol for a given packet, we record it as a drop, even if a raw
> socket receieves the frame.  We should only record the drop in the event a raw
> socket doesnt exist to receive the frames
> 
> Tested by the reported successfully
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Reported-by: William Reich <reich@ulticom.com>
> Tested-by: William Reich <reich@ulticom.com>
> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> CC: William Reich <reich@ulticom.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/ip_input.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Hmm, could you perhaps do the similar fix for IPv6 in the same patch ?

Thanks !