netdev - Re: [PATCH] route: fix ICMP redirect validation

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Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:19:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fbl@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] route: fix ICMP redirect validation

From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:47:02 -0200

> I was reviewing this again and instead of doing the above, it would
> be better to use rt_bind_peer() to update rt->peer as well.
> 
>                         if (!rt->peer)
>                                 rt_bind_peer(rt, rt->rt_dst, 1);
> 
>                         peer = rt->peer;
>                         if (peer) {
>                                 peer->redirect_learned.a4 = new_gw;
>                                 atomic_inc(&__rt_peer_genid);
>                         }
> 
> 
> but I am not sure if I understood you completely when you say
> to do such that only an inetpeer cache probe is necessary.

If you have the route entry available already and you're doing the
inetpeer lookup anyways, you might as well use rt_bind_peer() since
all of the expensive work has to be done anyways.

So yes, using rt_bind_peer() would be the best thing to do here.
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