netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fib: fix fib dump restart

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Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:26:12 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
To:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fib: fix fib dump restart

On 04/24/2014 09:48 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> From: Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>
>
> When the ipv6 fib changes during a table dump, the walk is
> restarted and the number of nodes dumped are skipped. But the existing
> code doesn't advance to the next node after a node is skipped. This can
> cause the dump to loop or produce lots of duplicates when the fib
> is modified during the dump.
>
> This change advances the walk to the next node if the current node is
> skipped after a restart.
>

Not sure if patchwork will do the right thing, but adding Kumar's 
signed-off-by:

Signed-off-by: Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>

-chris
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