netdev - Re: [PATCH 3.2] ipv6: don't set DST_NOCOUNT for remotely added routes

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Date:	Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:19:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, sd@...asysnail.net,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2] ipv6: don't set DST_NOCOUNT for remotely added
 routes

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:02:22 +0100

> From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
> 
> commit c88507fbad8055297c1d1e21e599f46960cbee39 upstream.
> 
> DST_NOCOUNT should only be used if an authorized user adds routes
> locally. In case of routes which are added on behalf of router
> advertisments this flag must not get used as it allows an unlimited
> number of routes getting added remotely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
> This is untested, but looks almost identical to what you sent for 3.4.
> Please ack/nak.

This looks good to me:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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