netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] net/ipv6: Another followup to the fib6

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Message-Id: <20180421.160634.1809675796321368396.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 16:06:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...sch.org,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        weiwan@...gle.com, kafai@...com, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] net/ipv6: Another followup to the
 fib6_info change

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:37:56 -0700

> Last one - for this week.
> 
> Patches 1, 2 and 7 are more cleanup patches - removing dead code,
> moving code from a header to near its single caller, and updating
> function name.
> 
> Patches 3-5 do some refactoring leading up to patch 6 which fixes
> a NULL dereference. I have only managed to trigger a panic once, so
> I can not definitively confirm it addresses the problem but it seems
> pretty clear that it is a race on removing a 'from' reference on
> an rt6_info and another path using that 'from' value to do
> cookie checking.

Great work, series applied.