netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11297] New: OOPS in rt6_fill

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Message-Id: <20080811.184026.02436525.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:40:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eugeneteo@...nel.sg
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, parag.warudkar@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11297] New: OOPS in rt6_fill_node

From: "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:28:05 +0800

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote:
> >> Parag Warudkar wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What output do you see with your patch?
> >>
> >> # ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1
> >> unreachable fec0::1 dev lo  table unspec  proto none  src
> >> 2001:1890:1109:a10:218:feff:fe7f:49c8  metric -1  error -101 hoplimit 255
> >
> > Hmm, I tried it on an older kernel that doesn't have Yoshfuji-san's
> > ipv6_get_saddr() changes,
> > and it should display the output with the loopback MAC address instead
> > of ethX MAC address.
> > Correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Evidence of me still sleepy. Not the MAC address but the ipv6 address...

Hmmm... from what I understand so far based upon Parag's most
recent reply, Brian's patch should be OK.

Does everyone else agree?

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