Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 05:47:28PM +0100, Gustavo Luiz Duarte wrote:
> The local_ip and remote_ip configfs attributes are written independently
> and nothing stops a user from mixing ipv4 and ipv6. This leads to an
> ipv4 address being zero-extended into an ipv6 header or an ipv6 address
> being truncated to its first 4 bytes for an ipv4 header.
> 
> The command-line parser already refuses such a mismatch. This adds a
> similar check when a dynamic target is being enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
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