Merge branch 'rt6i_gateway'
Julian Anastasov says:
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ipv6: use rt6i_gateway as nexthop
The following patchset makes sure that rt6i_gateway
contains valid nexthop information in all cases, so that
we can use different nexthop for sending.
The first patch is a simple fix that makes IPVS, TEE,
RAW(hdrincl) and RTF_DYNAMIC(without RTF_GATEWAY) work as
before 3.9. There is a single corner case not solved by
this patch: RAW(hdrincl) or TEE using local address for
nexthop, a silly feature, I guess. In this case we
see zeroes in rt6i_gateway because we get route that is not
cloned. This is solved only with patch 2.
The second patch is an optimization that makes sure
all resulting routes have rt6i_gateway filled, so that we
can avoid the complex ipv6_addr_any() call added to rt6_nexthop()
by patch 1. And it sets rt6i_gateway for local routes, a case
not handled by patch 1.
The third patch uses the new rt6_nexthop() function to fix
the matching of gateways in the same way as commit bbb5823cf742a7
("netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix rt_gateway checks for H.323 helper")
fixes nf_conntrack_h323_main.c for IPv4. Currently, it depends on
the new definition of rt6_nexthop() in patch 2. Actually, if
patch 2 is applied, patch 3 becomes a cosmetic change.
I see the following two alternatives for applying these
patches:
1. Linger patch 2 in net-next to avoid surprises in the upcoming
release. In this case patch 3 can be reworked not to depend on
the new rt6_nexthop() definition in patch 2. I guess this is a
better option, so that patch 2 can be reviewed and tested for
longer time.
2. Include all 3 patches in net tree - more risky because this
is my first attempt to change IPv6.
Here is the situation as handled by patch 2:
In IPv6 the resolved routes are always host routes (/128
with DST_HOST), mostly cloned ones. We allow routes in FIB
to contain rt6i_gateway with zeroes (eg. for local subnets) but
on cloning we can fill the rt6i_gateway field in result.
This works even without this patchset.
There is a single special case where dst is provided as
skb_dst directly without a routing call: icmp6_dst_alloc(). It is a
private dst allocated just for the particular ICMP packet. Patch 2
fills rt6i_gateway in this case, needed for the new rt6_nexthop()
simplification.
The last case is addrconf_dst_alloc(), it can put in
FIB local/anycast routes when addresses are added. Patch 2
needs to fill rt6i_gateway in this case because such routes
are returned without cloning.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>