Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Fix runtime WARNING in rtmsg_ifa()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Apparently commit 5c766d642bcaffd0c2a5b354db2068515b3846cf ("ipv4:
>> introduce address lifetime") forgot to take into account the addition of
>> struct ifa_cacheinfo in inet_nlmsg_size(). Hence add it, like is already
>> done for ipv6.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Seems a candidate for -stable.

Woops, yes. I thought this was a recent change, but I misread the year.
The bug has been present since v3.9-rc1.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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