Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] ipv6: adding ip_nonlocal_bind option from ipv4

[Michal Humpula <michal.humpula@web4u.cz>]

On Monday 05 of July 2010 12:30:32 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Mails are crossing, but additional comments below.
> 
> Michal Humpula wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> > index 1357c57..525edae 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> > @@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ static const struct bin_table bin_net_ipv6_table[] =
> > {
> > 
> >  	{ CTL_DIR,	NET_IPV6_ROUTE,		"route",	bin_net_ipv6_route_table },
> >  	{ CTL_DIR,	NET_IPV6_ICMP,		"icmp",		bin_net_ipv6_icmp_table },
> >  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_BINDV6ONLY,		"bindv6only" },
> > 
> > +	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_NONLOCAL_BIND,		"ipv6_nonlocal_bind" },
> > 
> >  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_HIGH_THRESH,	"ip6frag_high_thresh" },
> >  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_LOW_THRESH,	"ip6frag_low_thresh" },
> >  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_TIME,		"ip6frag_time" },
> 
> No more binary interface.
> 
> > diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> > index e830cd4..ed59ec4 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> > 
> > @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ out_rcu_unlock:
> >  	goto out;
> >  
> >  }
> > 
> > +int sysctl_ipv6_nonlocal_bind __read_mostly;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_ipv6_nonlocal_bind);
> 
> why?
> 
> In IPv4 it seems to be exported for SCTP. Probably you need to
> look into SCTP as well.
> 
> --yoshfuji

Thanks for review. I should obviously wait a little bit longer before posting the v2.