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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv6: Check return of dev_set_allmulti
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:01:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48607FB7.9050908@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080624.125243.112730755.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 said the following on 2008-6-24 11:52:
> In article <485AFFFB.5040901@cn.fujitsu.com> (at Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:55:23 +0800), Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> says:
> 
>> allmulti might overflow.
>> Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes
>> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened.
>>
>> Here, we check the positive increment for allmulti to get error return.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> The comment is too obvious to have.
> 

It's just explain the background of this series of fix.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-24  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-20  0:55 [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv6: Check return of dev_set_allmulti Wang Chen
2008-06-20  2:09 ` David Miller
2008-06-20  3:06   ` Wang Chen
2008-06-24  3:52 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-24  5:01   ` Wang Chen [this message]

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