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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.25] RDMA/cxgb3: Fail loopback
	connections.
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:26:56 -0800
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applied, although:

 > +static void is_loopback_dst(struct iw_cm_id *cm_id)
 > +{
 > +	struct net_device *dev;
 > +	
 > +	dev = ip_dev_find(&init_net, cm_id->remote_addr.sin_addr.s_addr);
 > +	if (!dev)
 > +		return 0;
 > +	dev_put(dev);
 > +	return 1;
 > +}

is there any way this could trigger when it should, like if I'm trying
to make a connection from one local device to a different local device
(which should work fine)?

 - R.