netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: fix forwarding of IPv6

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Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 22:00:44 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Noah Meyerhans <noahm@...ian.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: fix forwarding of IPv6

Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 à 12:53 -0700, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> The commit 6b1e960fdbd75dcd9bcc3ba5ff8898ff1ad30b6e
>     bridge: Reset IPCB when entering IP stack on NF_FORWARD
> broke forwarding of IPV6 packets in bridge because it would
> call bp_parse_ip_options with an IPV6 packet.
> 
> Reported-by: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@...ian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> ---
> Patch against net-next-2.6 but must be applied to net-2.6
> and stable as well
> 

Well, stable is not needed, since faulty commit is not in 2.6.38

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>



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