netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add limits to ip_default

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Message-Id: <20101213.121803.48496655.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:18:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add limits to ip_default_ttl

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:08:32 +0100

> Le lundi 13 décembre 2010 à 10:04 -0800, David Miller a écrit :
>> Always go through a new ip4_dst_hoplimit() helper, just like ipv6.
 ...
> Please find following patch then, because extra2 is not anymore used.

Ok.

> BTW, I cant find where extra2 was set to actual struct net pointer in
> net-2.6 kernel. I suspect a write on /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl
> was flushing routes of initial net only, not current one ?

It appears that way.

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add limits to ip_default_ttl
> 
> ip_default_ttl should be between 1 and 255
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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