netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing interface

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Message-Id: <20080602.172009.84304151.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:20:09 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	shanwei@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing
 interface

In article <4843AB51.6010206@...fujitsu.com> (at Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:12:01 +0800), Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com> says:

>   When specifying the outgoing interface with sendmsg, if the ipi6_addr is 
> the unspecified address and the ipi6_ifindex is the not-exist interface, 
> it should be fail and the errno should be set ENODEV.
>   Actually, it does well(sendmsg returns on success ), because the kernel 
> don't check the interface。
>   
>   The patch is against 2.6.26-rc4.

Please fix dev leakage.

--yoshfuji