netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] ipv6: properly combine dev_base_seq and ipv6.dev_addr

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:19:31 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] ipv6: properly combine dev_base_seq and ipv6.dev_addr_genid

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:17 AM Nicolas Dichtel
<nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
>
> Le 15/02/2024 à 18:21, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> > net->dev_base_seq and ipv6.dev_addr_genid are monotonically increasing.
> >
> > If we XOR their values, we could miss to detect if both values
> > were changed with the same amount.
> >
> > Fixes: 63998ac24f83 ("ipv6: provide addr and netconf dump consistency info")
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> The trailers are mangled, your sob is put twice.
>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Oops, copy/paste error ;)

Thanks !