Re: A question about commit 6c16fa backported in 3.18.93

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On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 10:58:02AM +0800, Wang Han wrote:
> Hello, I am not familiar with Linux mailing, sorry for this.
> 
> I am writing this mail because I am not sure about commit
> 6c16fa957e84c8b640dadc4e0264ff0d2dae7aa3 added in 3.18.93.
> 
> That backport made the arp.h changes in struct __ipv4_neigh_lookup(),
> but compared with upstream commit, I think that 3 lines should be
> added in __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref(), as I go through the context.
> Also the latter would be called unconditionally if former is called so
> it would cover more cases.
> 
> Could you please check this and let me know? Though it would 90% be my derp.

You might be right, I did the backport of this by hand, and odds are I
got it wrong.  Thanks for checking this and finding the issue.

Could you send me a patch to fix this up so I can apply it to the next
3.18.y release and give you the proper credit for it?

thanks,

greg k-h



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