netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: Consolidate metrics handling for ipv4 and ipv6

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Date:   Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:55:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, weiwan@...gle.com, sd@...asysnail.net,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: Consolidate metrics handling for
 ipv4 and ipv6

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Date: Thu,  4 Oct 2018 20:07:50 -0700

> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> As part of the IPv6 fib info refactoring, the intent was to make metrics
> handling for ipv6 identical to ipv4. One oversight in ip6_dst_destroy
> led to confusion and a couple of incomplete attempts at finding and
> fixing the resulting memory leak which was ultimately resolved by
> ce7ea4af0838 ("ipv6: fix memory leak on dst->_metrics").
> 
> Refactor metrics hanlding make the code really identical for v4 and v6,
> and add a few test cases.

Looks nice, series applied, thanks David.