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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/smc: add support for netdevice in
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From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To:     dust.li@linux.alibaba.com,
        Albert Huang <huangjie.albert@bytedance.com>,
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        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
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Date:   Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:41:25 +0200
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On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 11:42 +0800, Dust Li wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:35:45AM +0800, Albert Huang wrote:
> > If the netdevice is within a container and communicates externally
> > through network technologies like VXLAN, we won't be able to find
> > routing information in the init_net namespace. To address this issue,
>=20
> Thanks for your founding !
>=20
> I think this is a more generic problem, but not just related to VXLAN ?
> If we use SMC-R v2 and the netdevice is in a net namespace which is not
> init_net, we should always fail, right ? If so, I'd prefer this to be a b=
ugfix.

Re-stating the above to be on the same page: the patch should be re-
posted targeting the net tree, and including a suitable fixes tag.

@Dust Li: please correct me if I misread you.

Thanks,

Paolo