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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in ip6_pol_route
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:40:43 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:15:04 +0530

> The fix is to not update ip6_null_entry for a vlan device. Please
> review.

This is just rediculious.

Configuring a vlan on loopback is stupid.

Having IFF_LOOPBACK be set on a loopback device is even more
stupid.

So fix one of those two things, otherwise we'll just add a million
tests over time to this conditional.