netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: Fix possibly wrong MLD queries' ethernet source address

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Message-Id: <20110322.192654.246547109.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:26:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linus.luessing@....de
Cc:	JBeulich@...ell.com, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Fix possibly wrong MLD queries' ethernet
 source address

From: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:40:32 +0100

> The ipv6_dev_get_saddr() is currently called with an uninitialized
> destination address. Although in tests it usually seemed to nevertheless
> always fetch the right source address, there seems to be a possible race
> condition.
> 
> Therefore this commit changes this, first setting the destination
> address and only after that fetching the source address.
> 
> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>

Applied, thank you!
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