netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: in case of link failure remove route directly instead of letting it expire

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:46:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: in case of link failure remove route
 directly instead of letting it expire

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 23:00:57 +0200

> We could end up expiring a route which is part of an ecmp route set. Doing
> so would invalidate the rt->rt6i_nsiblings calculations and could provoke
> the following panic:
 ...
> Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Hannes.
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