netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: reallocate new socket option number for IPV6

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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:00:22 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: reallocate new socket option number for
 IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 12:17:09AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
 > cb1ce2e ("ipv6: Implement automatic flow label generation on transmit")
 > accidentally uses socket option 64, which is already used by ip6tables:
 > 
 >  IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE / IP6T_SO_GET_INFO               64
 >  IP6T_SO_SET_ADD_COUNTERS / IP6T_SO_GET_ENTRIES       65
 > 
 > There is comment include/uapi/linux/in6.h warning about that.
 > 
 > Allocate 70 for this, which seems to be unused instead.
 > 
 > Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
 > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>

Just tested this, ip6tables works fine now.

thanks Pablo.

	Dave
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