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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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)
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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.