netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing interface

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:17:45 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / .$B5HF#1QL@.(B 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	shanwei@...fujitsu.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist
 outgoing interface

In article <4843B65C.1060702@...fujitsu.com> (at Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:59:08 +0800), Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com> says:

>   When specifying the outgoing interface with sendmsg, if the ipi6_addr is 
> the unspecified address and the ipi6_ifindex is the not-exist interface, 
> it should be fail and the errno should be set ENODEV.
>   Actually, it does well(sendmsg returns on success ), because the kernel 
> don't check the interface.$B!#.(B
> 
>  The patch is against 2.6.26-rc4.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei<shanwei@...fujitsu.com>

Patch (white spaces) is broken, but I'm going to apply this by hand.
Thanks.

--yoshfuji
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