netdev - Re: [patch] ipvs: zero usvc and udest

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Message-ID: <4B27B31D.3050207@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:02:37 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
CC:	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Deon van der Merwe <dvdm@...teq.co.za>,
	Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] ipvs: zero usvc and udest

Simon Horman wrote:
> Make sure that any otherwise uninitialised fields of usvc are zero.
> 
> This has been obvserved to cause a problem whereby the port of
> fwmark services may end up as a non-zero value which causes
> scheduling of a destination server to fail for persisitent services.
> 
> As observed by Deon van der Merwe <dvdm@...teq.co.za>.
> This fix suggested by Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>.
> 
> For good measure also zero udest.
> 
> Cc: Deon van der Merwe <dvdm@...teq.co.za>
> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
> 
> --- 
> 
> This bug has been present since the netlink interface to IPVS was
> introduced in 2.6.28. I think it is relevant for 2.6.33 as well
> as -stable.

Applied, thanks. I'll push it to -stable as well.

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