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Subject: Re: IPv6 route mutex recursion (crash) and fix
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At Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:09:57 -0400,
Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> 
> I've already made noise about this before, so I'll be brief.  I plan on
> committing the following fix that prevents the routing code from being
> recursed upon such that RTM_RESOLVE causes the embryonic new route to
> be looked up again.  I realize that probably no one will bother trying
> to see this bug in action, but all you need to do is send some UDP6 to
> ff02::1%<if> as a user, with INVARIANTS turned on.
> 
> Are there any objections?  It would be nice to have this in 5-STABLE,
> in case anyone actually wants to have IPv6.

Unless I am missing something (I have not applied the patch) it's not
doing anything.  What does the new code actually do?

I'll try to try this patch out later.

Later,
George