From: Mahesh Bandewar <mah...@bandewar.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:48:30 -0800
> From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahe...@google.com>
>
> In the last patch da36e13cf65 ("ipvlan: improvise dev_id generation
> logic in IPvlan") I missed some part of Dave's suggestion and because
> of that the dev_id creation could fail in a corner case scenario. This
> would happen when more or less 64k devices have been already created and
> several have been deleted. If the devices that are still sticking around
> are the last n bits from the bitmap. So in this scenario even if lower
> bits are available, the dev_id search is so narrow that it always fails.
>
> Fixes: da36e13cf65 ("ipvlan: improvise dev_id generation logic in IPvlan")
> CC: David Miller <da...@davemloft.org>
> CC: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <mahe...@google.com>
Applied, thanks.
