Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fib: fix fib dump restart

From: Chris Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:43:15 -0400

On 04/24/2014 10:18 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 09:48 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
>> From: Kumar Sundararajan <[email-masked]>
>>
>> When the ipv6 fib changes during a table dump, the walk is
>> restarted and the number of nodes dumped are skipped. But the existing
>> code doesn't advance to the next node after a node is skipped. This can
>> cause the dump to loop or produce lots of duplicates when the fib
>> is modified during the dump.
>>
>> This change advances the walk to the next node if the current node is
>> skipped after a restart.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Hi Chris
>
> Who wrote the patch exactly ?
>
> If Kumar did, you need to put the
> "Signed-off-by: Kumar Sundararajan <[email-masked]>" before your own

Kumar did write it, I'll grab a sob from him.

-chris