linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Networking

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Date:   Thu, 6 Oct 2016 02:09:45 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        NetFilter <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@...eadtrum.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 03:37:17PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > I have been carrying the following merge fix patch (for the merge of
> > the net-next tree with Linus' tree) for a while now which seems to have
> > got missed:
> 
> Ugh. It doesn't seem to be a merge error, because that double iph
> assignment came from the original patch that introduced this function:
> commit ddc8b6027ad0 ("netfilter: introduce nft_set_pktinfo_{ipv4,
> ipv6}_validate()").
> 
> So I wouldn't call it a merge error - it just looks like a bug in the
> network layer. So I'm not going to apply your patch even though it
> looks plausible to me, simply because it's outside my area of
> expertise.
> 
> David? Pablo?

This looks good, please take it so we speed up things.

Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>

Thanks!

P.S: Sorry for not addressing this any sooner, traveling overhead,
conferente and unstable wifi connection has been a problem here.