netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] net/ipv6: don't return positive numbers when nothing was dumped

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:25:57 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     dsahern@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net/ipv6: don't return positive numbers when
 nothing was dumped

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:47:19 -0800

> in6_dump_addrs() returns a positive 1 if there was nothing to dump.
> This return value can not be passed as return from inet6_dump_addr()
> as is, because it will confuse rtnetlink, resulting in NLMSG_DONE
> never getting set:
> 
> $ ip addr list dev lo
> EOF on netlink
> Dump terminated
> 
> v2: flip condition to avoid a new goto (DaveA)
> 
> Fixes: 7c1e8a3817c5 ("netlink: fixup regression in RTM_GETADDR")
> Reported-by: Brendan Galloway <brendan.galloway@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

Applied, and since the RTM_GETADDR regression fix was backports I'll have
to -stable this as well.

Thanks!