netdev - Re: [PATCH] Can not send icmp netunreach packet

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Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:30:30 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...il.com
Cc:	lyw@...fujitsu.com, swhiteho@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Can not send icmp netunreach packet

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:35:38 +0000

> On 26-02-2008 07:34, Li Yewang wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> >    There is a bug about icmp netunreach.
> >    If the kernel does not find a route for a packet, 
> >    it must send a icmp netunreach packet to the source host, 
> >    and  discard  the packet. But the  kernel  does not send 
> >    a icmp netunreach packet because of the  fib_lookup
> >    return value  of -ESRCH when a route  is not found. 
> 
> ...or because some function doesn't handle -ESRCH return from
> fib_lookup? It seems changing this to -ESRCH was needed in some cases.
> And you don't explain enough why it can't be handled later (like in
> ipv4/route.c: ip_route_input_slow)?

This was changed to -ESRCH so that the proper statistics
would be bumped.  So if we change it back, the statistics
will be broken again.
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