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Message-Id: <20130928.152042.893883191246097959.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:20:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, therbert@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: net_secret should not depend on TCP

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:51:47 +0200

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 06:19:57AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>> 
>> A host might need net_secret[] and never open a single socket. 
>> 
>> Problem added in commit aebda156a570782
>> ("net: defer net_secret[] initialization")
>> 
>> Based on prior patch from Hannes Frederic Sowa.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> FWIW, I reviewed that the loop indeed cannot block and gave the patch a
> quick test drive. Also, the ipv6_hash_secret is only used by the ehash
> functions. So this is a superior patch than mine:
> 
> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...ressinduktion.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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