netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ICMPv6 packets transmitted on wrong interface if nfmark is mangled

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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:57:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dries.dewinter@...il.com
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ICMPv6 packets transmitted on wrong interface if
 nfmark is mangled

From: Dries De Winter <dries.dewinter@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:41:59 +0100

> My "noreroute" patch will not fix this. Therefore it's indeed maybe
> better to add a simple check to ip6_route_me_harder(): not a check for
> ICMPv6, but a check for (ipv6_addr_type(&iph->daddr) &
> IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) instead. What do you think?

What if a packet is rewritten from a non-link-local destination address
into a link-local one?  Or vice versa?

Your test will fail in those cases.
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