Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv6: enforce flowi6_oif usage in ip6_dst_lookup_tail()

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:38:47 +0100

On 27.01.2016 14:45, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> index 3c8834b..973cb73 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
> @@ -1183,11 +1183,10 @@ static struct rt6_info *ip6_pol_route_output(struct net *net, struct fib6_table
>   	return ip6_pol_route(net, table, fl6->flowi6_oif, fl6, flags);
>   }
>
> -struct dst_entry *ip6_route_output(struct net *net, const struct sock *sk,
> -				    struct flowi6 *fl6)
> +struct dst_entry *ip6_route_output_flags(struct net *net, const struct sock *sk,
> +					 struct flowi6 *fl6, int flags)
>   {
>   	struct dst_entry *dst;
> -	int flags = 0;
>   	bool any_src;
>
>   	dst = l3mdev_rt6_dst_by_oif(net, fl6);
> @@ -1208,6 +1207,13 @@ struct dst_entry *ip6_route_output(struct net *net, const struct sock *sk,
>
>   	return fib6_rule_lookup(net, fl6, flags, ip6_pol_route_output);
>   }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip6_route_output_flags);
> +
> +struct dst_entry *ip6_route_output(struct net *net, const struct sock *sk,
> +				   struct flowi6 *fl6)
> +{
> +	return ip6_route_output_flags(net, sk, fl6, 0);
> +}
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip6_route_output);

I think this can just be a static inline function.

Is it a lot of work to introduce the flags argument globally? Most other 
functions already have a flags parameter, maybe instead of just adding 
another wrapper just bite the bullet and add it everywhere?

Thanks,
Hannes