netdev - Re: regression: Apparently missing err assignment in ipv6 bind

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Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:12:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	maze@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression: Apparently missing err assignment in ipv6 bind

From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:16:40 -0700

> AFAICT, 2.6.30.5 and 2.6.31-rc7 both include a change in net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> 
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.30.5/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c#L298
> 
> which results in a possible error return path with no err assignment.
> I believe the error should be EADDRNOTAVAIL.

There is a fix for this already in Linus's tree.

And I'm going to submit it for -stable too.