From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sd@queasysnail.net
Subject: Re: [Patch net] ipv6: restore the behavior of ipv6_sock_ac_drop()
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:10:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140907.161032.428676807612508937.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409952780-24471-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 14:33:00 -0700
> It is possible that the interface is already gone after joining
> the list of anycast on this interface as we don't hold a refcount
> for the device, in this case we are safe to ignore the error.
>
> What's more important, for API compatibility we should not
> change this behavior for applications even if it were correct.
>
> Fixes: commit a9ed4a2986e13011 ("ipv6: fix rtnl locking in setsockopt for anycast and multicast")
> Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-07 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-05 21:33 [Patch net] ipv6: restore the behavior of ipv6_sock_ac_drop() Cong Wang
2014-09-05 22:26 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-05 22:41 ` Cong Wang
2014-09-05 23:07 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-07 23:10 ` David Miller [this message]
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