netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] sctp: Don't lookup dst if transport dst is still valid

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	fan.du@...driver.com
Cc:	vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] sctp: Don't lookup dst if transport dst is still
 valid

From: Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:15:10 +0800

> But problem still arise when we attempt to delete address
> in multi-home mode, deleting an IPv6 address does not invalidate
> any dst which source address is the same at the deleted one.
> Which means sctp cannot rely on ip6_dst_check in this scenario.

I still cannot understand why this is an SCTP specific issue.

Specifically, I cannot see why address addition/deletion doesn't
cause problems for cached ipv6 routes in UDP and TCP sockets too.
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