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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv6: Check return of dev_set_allmulti
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:01:43 +0800
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =E5=90=89=E8=97=A4=E8=8B=B1=E6=98=8E said the follo=
wing 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:
>=20
>> allmulti might overflow.
>> Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-ne=
xt makes
>> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happene=
d.
>>
>> Here, we check the positive increment for allmulti to get error retu=
rn.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
>=20
> The comment is too obvious to have.
>=20

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