netdev - Re: [PATCH 3.10-rc] ipv6: Process unicast packet with Router Alert by checking flag in skb.

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:47:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10-rc] ipv6: Process unicast packet with Router Alert
 by checking flag in skb.

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:13:13 +0900

> Router Alert option is marked in skb.
> Previously, IP6CB(skb)->ra was set to positive value for such packets.
> Since commit dd3332bf ("ipv6: Store Router Alert option in IP6CB
> directly."), IP6SKB_ROUTERALERT is set in IP6CB(skb)->flags, and
> the value of Router Alert option (in network byte order) is set
> to IP6CB(skb)->ra for such packets.
> 
> Multicast forwarding path uses that flag and value, but unicast
> forwarding path does not use the flag and misuses IP6CB(skb)->ra
> value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>

Applied, thanks.
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