netdev - Re: IPV6 source routing patch is still broken?

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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:04:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cebbert@...hat.com
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6 source routing patch is still broken?

From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:53:58 -0400

> And what does this do?
> 
> +	switch (hdr->type) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6
> +		break;
> +#endif
> 
> break by itself like that doesn't do anything. If it did
> then people with mobile ipv6 enabled would always accept all
> source routing. (They should at least know that's a problem.)

We are aware of this part already, and I've sent the fix to
the -stable folks and Linus so we can figure out how to deal
with this and the netlink OOPS'er too.

To be honest I don't blame anyone but the compiler, it shouldn't
accept that code without at least a warning.
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