Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: tcp_ipv6 policy route issue

From: wangyufen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:00:34 +0800

On 2014/3/26 15:05, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 02:25:22PM +0800, Wangyufen wrote:
>> From: Wang Yufen <[email-masked]>
>>
>> The issue raises when adding policy route, specify a particular
>> NIC as oif, the policy route did not take effect. The reason is
>> that fl6.oif is not set and route map failed. From the 
>> tcp_v6_send_response function, if the binding address is linklocal,
>> fl6.oif is set, but not for global address.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen <[email-masked]>
> 
> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email-masked]>
> 
> But this looks like a bug to me, so maybe this is something for net
> inclusion.
I checked the commit log, I think, changes to ipv6 was incompleted in 
commit 4c67525849e0b7f4bd4fab leded to this issue . 
In tcp_v6_send_response, fl6.oif can't be directly set to iif for global
address, but it should not be 0.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Hannes
> 
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