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

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Message-Id: <20110513.160232.1127228366429050055.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 16:02:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, noahm@...ian.org,
	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, ben@...adent.org.uk,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: fix forwarding of IPv6

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 22:00:44 +0200

> 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>

I do need to queue it up for -stable because the faulty commit is
also queued up there :-)
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