Re: [PATCH] [BRIDGE-NF] Fix bridge-nf ipv6 length check

"David S. Miller" <davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/[email protected]> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:01:02 -0800 (PST)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
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From: Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:00:13 +0000

> A typo caused some bridged IPv6 packets to get dropped randomly,
> as reported by Sebastien Chaumontet. The patch below fixes this
> (using skb->nh.raw instead of raw) and also makes the jumbo packet
> length checking up-to-date with the code in
> net/ipv6/exthdrs.c::ipv6_hop_jumbo.
> This is probably a candidate for -stable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

I'll probably pass this on to -stable, but bridge-nf+ipv6 is
nearly as fringe usage as DecNET or NetBEUI to be honest :-)


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