netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fib: fix fib dump restart

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Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:31:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	clm@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fib: fix fib dump restart

From: Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:26:12 -0400

> On 04/24/2014 09:48 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
>>
>> From: Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>
>>
>> When the ipv6 fib changes during a table dump, the walk is
>> restarted and the number of nodes dumped are skipped. But the existing
>> code doesn't advance to the next node after a node is skipped. This
>> can
>> cause the dump to loop or produce lots of duplicates when the fib
>> is modified during the dump.
>>
>> This change advances the walk to the next node if the current node is
>> skipped after a restart.
>>
> 
> Not sure if patchwork will do the right thing, but adding Kumar's
> signed-off-by:

I just checked, it does do the right thing, just FYI.
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