netdev - Re: [PATCH V3] ipv6: handle Redirect ICMP Message with no Redirected Header option

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Message-ID: <20130821111700.GE20223@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:17:00 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] ipv6: handle Redirect ICMP Message with no Redirected Header option

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 03:14:12PM +0800, Duan Jiong wrote:
> From: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> rfc 4861 says the Redirected Header option is optional, so
> the kernel should not drop the Redirect Message that has no
> Redirected Header option. In this patch, the function
> ip6_redirect_no_header() is introduced to deal with that
> condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>

Sorry for being so picky about local socket delivery before. You were right
all along.

I just tested and reviewed this patch and everything is fine:

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Just out of curiosity, can you tell because of which devices you did
this patch?

Thanks,

  Hannes

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