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David Ahern authored
inet6addr_validator chain was added by commit 3ad7d246 ("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 addresses received from router advertisements. Handling RAs in softirq context is the only reason for the notifier chain to be atomic versus blocking. Since the only current user, ipvlan, of the validator chain ignores softirq context, the notifier can be made blocking and simply not invoked for softirq path. The blocking option is needed by spectrum for example to validate resources for an adding an address to an interface. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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