From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: IPV6 source routing patch is still broken?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:10:56 -0400
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:53:58 -0400
> 
>> And what does this do?
>>
>> +	switch (hdr->type) {
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6
>> +		break;
>> +#endif
>>
>> break by itself like that doesn't do anything. If it did
>> then people with mobile ipv6 enabled would always accept all
>> source routing. (They should at least know that's a problem.)
> 
> We are aware of this part already, and I've sent the fix to
> the -stable folks and Linus so we can figure out how to deal
> with this and the netlink OOPS'er too.
> 

Another question: is it a good idea to even be shipping release
kernels with Mobile IPV6 enabled? Unfortunately, "experimental"
isn't enough to go by...