netdev - Re: ip_rt_bug questions.

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Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:50:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	davej@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip_rt_bug questions.

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:49:09 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:48:10 -0400
> 
>> I managed to trigger this today..
>> 
>> ip_rt_bug: 0.0.0.0 -> 255.255.255.255, ?
>> 
>> if this is useful in some way, maybe it should be enhanced
>> to print out something else, like a backtrace ?
>> 
>> Also, should it be a printk_ratelimit() ? Or is there
>> ratelimiting done elsewhere in the routing code ?
>> 
>> or should it just be silenced, leaving just the kfree_skb ?
> 
> It's a very serious issue, it means we used an input route for
> packet output.
> 
> Kernel version and what you were doing to trigger this?

BTW, if you could modify this thing to spit out a stack
trace (probably by using WARN_ON() or similar) that will
probably show us where the bug is coming from.

Thanks.
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