Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] iplink_vxlan: take into account preferred_family creating vxlan device

From: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:35:35 +0200

> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:34:25 +0200
> Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Take into account the configured preferred_family if neither saddr or
> > daddr are provided since otherwise vxlan kernel module will use IPv4 as
> > default remote inet family neglecting the one provided by userspace.
> > This behaviour was originally in commit 97d564b90ccb ("vxlan: use
> > preferred address family when neither group or remote is specified").
> > The issue can be triggered with the following reproducer:
> > 
> > $ip -6 link add vxlan1 type vxlan id 42 dev enp0s2 \
> >      proxy nolearning l2miss l3miss
> > $bridge fdb add 46:47:1f:a7:1c:25 dev vxlan1 dst 2000::2
> > RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol
> > 
> > Fixes: 1e9b8072de2c ("iplink_vxlan: Get rid of inet_get_addr()")
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]>
> 
> This patch was already in the queue. Is this a new version (if so please mark it as v2).

Hi Stephen,

yes, this is a v2. I missed v2 in the subject and changes respect to v1
(I have just modified the commit log actually). Please drop v1 and sorry for
the noise.

Regards,
Lorenzo