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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Initialize the neighbour pointer of rt6_info on allocation
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:21:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120705.142125.249880960682842623.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120705131828.GE1869@secunet.com>

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:18:28 +0200

> git commit 97cac082 (ipv6: Store route neighbour in rt6_info struct)
> added a neighbour pointer to rt6_info. Currently we don't initialize
> this pointer at allocation time. We assume this pointer to be valid
> if it is not a null pointer, so initialize it on allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>

Applied, but as Eric said we need to find a way to avoid having to
make changes like this every time we simply want to add a struct
member to rt6_info.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-05 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-05 13:18 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Initialize the neighbour pointer of rt6_info on allocation Steffen Klassert
2012-07-05 15:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-06  6:54   ` Steffen Klassert
2012-07-06  9:16     ` Steffen Klassert
2012-07-05 21:21 ` David Miller [this message]

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