netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/6] 6lowpan: uncompress of addresses fix

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Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:23:48 +0400
From:	Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>
CC:	dbaryshkov@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/6] 6lowpan: uncompress of addresses fix

On 08/14/2013 03:01 PM, Alexander Aring wrote:
> The current implementation to uncompress addresses in a 6lowpan header
> is completely broken.
>
> This patch series fixes the parsing of addresses in a 6lowpan header.
> It contains a major rewrite of the uncompress address function to parse
> the address in a correct way.
>

Could you please describe in a few words how have you tested the changes?

Small cosmetic hint: lowpan_raw_dump_inline() already has an argument to 
print debug message, so there is no need to add extra pr_debug calls 
before it to print static text.

Alex

> Changes since v2:
>   - Add tags for net-next
>   - Change commit msg in Patch 1/6 that this patch depends for the following
>     patches
>
> Alexander Aring (5):
>    6lowpan: init ipv6hdr buffer to zero
>    6lowpan: introduce lowpan_fetch_skb function
>    6lowpan: add function to uncompress multicast addr
>    6lowpan: lowpan_uncompress_addr with address_mode
>    6lowpan: handle context based source address
>
> David Hauweele (1):
>    6lowpan: Fix fragmentation with link-local compressed addresses
>
>   net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c | 284 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>   net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h |  20 +++-
>   2 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
>

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