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

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Message-ID: <1398349084.29914.65.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:18:04 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fib: fix fib dump restart

On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 09:48 -0400, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@...com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi Chris

Who wrote the patch exactly ?

If Kumar did, you need to put the
"Signed-off-by: Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>" before your own




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