Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: ipv6: Make inet6addr_validator a blocking notifier

2017-10-15 Thread Ido Schimmel
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 04:02:10PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: > inet6addr_validator chain was added by commit 3ad7d2468f79f ("Ipvlan > should return an error when an address is already in use") to allow > address validation before changes are committed and to be able to > fail the address change wit

[PATCH net-next 2/5] net: ipv6: Make inet6addr_validator a blocking notifier

2017-10-13 Thread David Ahern
inet6addr_validator chain was added by commit 3ad7d2468f79f ("Ipvlan should return an error when an address is already in use") to allow address validation before changes are committed and to be able to fail the address change with an error back to the user. The address validation is not done for a