Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] ping: fix ipv6 ping socket flow labels

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:49:30 -0700

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:56:08 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Alan Brady <[email-masked]>
> 
> Ping sockets don't appear to make any attempt to preserve flow labels
> created and set by userspace. Instead they are always clobbered by
> autolabels (if enabled) or zero.
> 
> This grabs the flowlabel out of the msghdr similar to how rawv6_sendmsg
> does it and moves the memset up so we don't zero it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Brady <[email-masked]>
> Tested-by: Gurucharan <[email-masked]> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <[email-masked]>

Thanks! Please add a selftest and s/fix/support/ in the subject
otherwise  the stable ML bot will think this is a fix, and its more 
of a missing feature.