Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] rxrpc: Support IPv6

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Sep 16 2016 - 01:58:19 EST


From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:41:31 +0100

>
> Here is a set of patches that add IPv6 support. They need to be applied on
> top of the just-posted miscellaneous fix patches. They are:
>
> (1) Make autobinding of an unconnected socket work when sendmsg() is
> called to initiate a client call.
>
> (2) Don't specify the protocol when creating the client socket, but rather
> take the default instead.
>
> (3) Use rxrpc_extract_addr_from_skb() in a couple of places that were
> doing the same thing manually. This allows the IPv6 address
> extraction to be done in fewer places.
>
> (4) Add IPv6 support. With this, calls can be made to IPv6 servers from
> userspace AF_RXRPC programs; AFS, however, can't use IPv6 yet as the
> RPC calls need to be upgradeable.
...
> Tagged thusly:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> rxrpc-rewrite-20160913-2

Looks good, pulled, thanks.