Re: [PATCH] netpoll: fix IPv6 local-address corruption

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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:31:16 -0700 you wrote:
> netpoll_setup() decides whether to auto-populate the local source
> address by testing np->local_ip.ip, which only inspects the first 4
> bytes of the union inet_addr storage.
> 
> For an IPv6 netpoll whose caller-supplied local address has a zero
> high-32 bits (::1, ::<suffix>, IPv4-mapped ::ffff:a.b.c.d, etc.), this
> misdetects the address as unset (which they are not, but the first
> 4 bytes are empty), calls netpoll_take_ipv6() and overwrites it with
> whatever matching link-local/global address the device happens to expose
> first.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - netpoll: fix IPv6 local-address corruption
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/3bc179bc7146

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