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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Cc: "Simon Horman" <horms@verge.net.au>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Malcolm Turnbull" <malcolm@loadbalancer.org>,
	"Siim Põder" <siim@p6drad-teel.net>,
	"Vince Busam" <vbusam@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipvs: load balance ipv6 connections from a local process
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:55:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C15680.7010004@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4845fc0809050440g24f304d9xec7982e984830c6e@mail.gmail.com>

Julius Volz wrote:
>> -out:
>> -       __ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
>> -
>> -       return verdict;
>> +       snet.in6 = iph->saddr;
> 
> I've always been told to use ipv6_addr_copy() for this. I'm not sure
> what the problem with the direct struct assignment is though... would
> be nice if someone could explain.

Because an in6_addr is a union of 4 u32's, which won't all be copied in 
a struct assignment.  That's the way I've always understood it.

-Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-05 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-05  1:36 [PATCH 1/2] ipvs: load balance IPv4 connections from a local process Simon Horman
2008-09-05  1:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipvs: load balance ipv6 " Simon Horman
2008-09-05 11:40   ` Julius Volz
2008-09-05 15:55     ` Brian Haley [this message]
2008-09-05 16:37       ` Julius Volz
2008-09-06  4:14     ` Simon Horman
2008-09-06  9:26       ` Julius Volz
2008-09-08  0:30         ` Simon Horman
2008-09-08  1:48         ` Simon Horman
2008-09-08  9:30           ` Julius Volz
2008-09-08  9:50             ` Simon Horman
2008-09-05  5:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] ipvs: load balance IPv4 " Julian Anastasov
2008-09-05  5:49   ` Siim Põder
2008-09-06  7:43     ` Simon Horman
2008-09-05 11:02 ` Julius Volz
2008-09-06  3:56   ` Simon Horman

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