netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix array index in ip6_mc_add

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Date:	Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:13:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix array index in ip6_mc_add_src()

From: roy.qing.li@...il.com
Date: Sun,  1 Apr 2012 16:45:26 +0800

> From: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> 
> Convert array index from the loop bound to the loop index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@...il.com> 

That's not all you are doing:

> -			(void) ip6_mc_del1_src(pmc, sfmode, &psfsrc[i]);
> +			ip6_mc_del1_src(pmc, sfmode, &psfsrc[j]);

You absolutely MUST mention and explain this (void) removal.
It's probably there to elide an unchecked return value
warning from the compiler.
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