netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Fix continued iteration in rtnl_bridge

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Date:	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:42:03 -0700
From:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Fix continued iteration in rtnl_bridge_getlink()

On 11/2/2012 3:56 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Commit e5a55a898720096f43bc24938f8875c0a1b34cd7 ('net: create generic
> bridge ops') broke the handling of a non-zero starting index in
> rtnl_bridge_getlink() (based on the old br_dump_ifinfo()).
>
> When the starting index is non-zero, we need to increment the current
> index for each entry that we are skipping.  Also, we need to check the
> index before both cases, since we may previously have stopped
> iteration between getting information about a device from its master
> and from itself.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> ---

I needed to be testing with more interfaces. Its clearly broke
with >41 veth devices. This patch fixes it thanks a lot Ben!

Tested-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
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