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From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com>
To: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks•com>, Erik Kline <ek@google•com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com,
	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google•com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: ipv6: Fix ping to link-local addresses.
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:44:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed271d49-e796-ebaa-2e71-35711710fd49@miraclelinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04a393c9-39f8-8d73-3476-928732e5b193@cumulusnetworks.com>



David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/9/16 1:01 AM, Erik Kline wrote:
>> On 9 August 2016 at 14:20, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:
>>> From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google•com>
>>> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 10:00:25 +0900
>>>
>>>> Note that pretty much every sendmsg codepath allows other data to take
>>>> precedence over sk_bound_dev_if:
>>>>
>>>> - udpv6_sendmsg: if sin6_scope_id specified on a scoped address
>>>> - rawv6_sendmsg: if sin6_scope_id specified on a scoped address
>>>> - l2tp_ip6_sendmsg: if sin6_scope_id specified on a scoped address
>>>> - ip_cmsg_send: if IP_PKTINFO or IPV6_PKTINFO specified
>>>>
>>>> What should I do about those? -EINVAL? Ignore the conflicting data? Leave as is?
>>>
>>> That's a good point, I guess this needs some more thought.
>>
>> I could see a point of view that says when bound_if is in play sending
>> to destinations on/via other interfaces--by any mechanism--should
>> effectively get ENETUNREACH (or something).
> 
> VRF uses this capability to send on an enslaved interface. ie., socket is bound to VRF device to limit packets to that L3 domain and then uses PKTINFO to force a packet out a particular interface.
> 

We could extend our code to allow enslave devices, maybe.

-- 
Hideaki Yoshifuji <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com>
Technical Division, MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-09 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-08  7:42 [PATCH net] net: ipv6: Fix ping to link-local addresses Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-08 14:26 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-08-08 14:45   ` Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-08 16:22     ` 吉藤英明
2016-08-08 15:27 ` David Ahern
2016-08-08 16:24   ` Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-08 16:27     ` David Ahern
2016-08-09  0:40       ` Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-08 21:35 ` David Miller
2016-08-09  1:00   ` Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-09  5:20     ` David Miller
2016-08-09  7:01       ` Erik Kline
2016-08-09  8:37         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2016-08-09  9:36           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-08-09 11:42             ` Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-09 13:21         ` David Ahern
2016-08-09 22:44           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki [this message]
2016-08-12 15:45             ` Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-12 16:04               ` David Ahern
2016-08-15  7:39               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2016-08-16 15:21                 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2016-08-16 16:22                   ` David Ahern

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