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From: David Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] udp: Increment UDP_MIB_IGNOREDMULTI for
 arriving unmatched multicasts
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:46:47 -0500 (EST)
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From: raj@tardy.usa.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Date: Thu,  6 Nov 2014 10:37:54 -0800 (PST)

> From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
> 
> As NIC multicast filtering isn't perfect, and some platforms are
> quite content to spew broadcasts, we should not trigger an event
> for skb:kfree_skb when we do not have a match for such an incoming
> datagram.  We do though want to avoid sweeping the matter under the
> rug entirely, so increment a suitable statistic.
> 
> This incorporates feedback from David L. Stevens, Karl Neiss and Eric
> Dumazet.
> 
> V3 - use bool per David Miller
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>

Applied, thanks Rick.