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* [PATCH] ipv6: Set mcast_hops to IPV6_DEFAULT_MCASTHOPS when -1 was given.
@ 2011-11-28  7:33 Li Wei
  2011-11-28 23:09 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Li Wei @ 2011-11-28  7:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev

We need to set np->mcast_hops to it's default value at this moment
otherwise when we use it and found it's value is -1, the logic to
get default hop limit doesn't take multicast into account and will
return wrong hop limit(IPV6_DEFAULT_HOPLIMIT) which is for unicast.

Signed-off-by: Li Wei <lw@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
index c99e3ee..26cb08c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ done:
 			goto e_inval;
 		if (val > 255 || val < -1)
 			goto e_inval;
-		np->mcast_hops = val;
+		np->mcast_hops = (val == -1 ? IPV6_DEFAULT_MCASTHOPS : val);
 		retv = 0;
 		break;
 
-- 
1.7.3.2

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* Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Set mcast_hops to IPV6_DEFAULT_MCASTHOPS when -1 was given.
  2011-11-28  7:33 [PATCH] ipv6: Set mcast_hops to IPV6_DEFAULT_MCASTHOPS when -1 was given Li Wei
@ 2011-11-28 23:09 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2011-11-28 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lw; +Cc: netdev

From: Li Wei <lw@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:33:34 +0800

> We need to set np->mcast_hops to it's default value at this moment
> otherwise when we use it and found it's value is -1, the logic to
> get default hop limit doesn't take multicast into account and will
> return wrong hop limit(IPV6_DEFAULT_HOPLIMIT) which is for unicast.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Wei <lw@cn.fujitsu.com>

Applied, thank you.

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