Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: reallocate new socket option number for IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL

From: Dave Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:00:22 -0400

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 12:17:09AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
 > cb1ce2e ("ipv6: Implement automatic flow label generation on transmit")
 > accidentally uses socket option 64, which is already used by ip6tables:
 > 
 >  IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE / IP6T_SO_GET_INFO               64
 >  IP6T_SO_SET_ADD_COUNTERS / IP6T_SO_GET_ENTRIES       65
 > 
 > There is comment include/uapi/linux/in6.h warning about that.
 > 
 > Allocate 70 for this, which seems to be unused instead.
 > 
 > Cc: Tom Herbert <[email-masked]>
 > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>

Just tested this, ip6tables works fine now.

thanks Pablo.

	Dave