From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: timo.teras@iki.fi
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] neigh: error out pending skbs if netlink invalidates incomplete neigh
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:02:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090611.030207.238260652.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244104855-2129-1-git-send-email-timo.teras@iki.fi>
From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:40:55 +0300
> The state transition code from incomplete to invalid via neigh_update()
> is missing the proper clean up of skb queue. Separate the clean up
> code from neigh_timer_handler() to a new function and make neigh_update()
> is it also.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
We don't error out pending SKBs on the state transition alone, we do
it when we have the state transition _AND_ the number of probes
exceeds the limit.
And it seems that behavior is very much intentional.
I'm not going to apply this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-11 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-04 8:40 [PATCH] neigh: error out pending skbs if netlink invalidates incomplete neigh Timo Teras
2009-06-11 10:02 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-06-11 10:08 ` Timo Teräs
2009-06-11 10:12 ` David Miller
2009-06-11 10:32 ` [PATCH] neigh: fix state transition INCOMPLETE->FAILED via Netlink request Timo Teras
2009-06-11 11:16 ` David Miller
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