netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Initial skb->dev and skb->protocol in ip6

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Date:   Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     chenbofeng.kernel@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, lorenzo@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fengc@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Initial skb->dev and skb->protocol in
 ip6_output

From: Chenbo Feng <chenbofeng.kernel@...il.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Jun 2017 12:06:07 -0700

> From: Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
> 
> Move the initialization of skb->dev and skb->protocol from
> ip6_finish_output2 to ip6_output. This can make the skb->dev and
> skb->protocol information avalaible to the CGROUP eBPF filter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.

This makes ipv6 consistent with ipv4.

I am surprised this wasn't noticed, for example, in netfilter.