netdev - Re: bridge netfilter output bug on 2.6.39

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 13:31:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridge netfilter output bug on 2.6.39

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:27:37 +0200

> It seems bridge code uses one fake_rtable

Ugh, forgot about this turd. :-/

All route objects should be dynamically allocated, otherwise we'll
constantly have to attend to these static route instances when we make
any changes to dst_alloc() or similar.

I'll apply the fix you posted for now, but long term this code
needs to accomplish it's goals in a different way.
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