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

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Message-ID: <20110513132429.261785c4@nehalam>
Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 13:24:29 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, noahm@...ian.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au,
	ben@...adent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: fix forwarding of IPv6

On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:02:32 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> 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 :-)

The faulty commit was in 2.6.38.4
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