netdev - Re: [PATCH 10/11] ipv6: move route updating for redirect to ndisc layer

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Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:04:35 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] ipv6: move route updating for redirect to ndisc layer

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 06:51:49PM +0800, Duan Jiong wrote:
> From: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> And when dealing with redirect message, the err shoud
> be assigned to 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/raw.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> index 58916bb..6138199 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static void rawv6_err(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  		harderr = (np->pmtudisc == IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO);
>  	}
>  	if (type == NDISC_REDIRECT)
> -		ip6_sk_redirect(skb, sk);
> +		err = 0;
>  	if (np->recverr) {
>  		u8 *payload = skb->data;
>  		if (!inet->hdrincl)

Hm, I don't like the cirumstance that we first call icmpv6_err_convert at
first and get back a bogus error value and later on convert it to something
meaningful.

Either:
a) Don't call icmpv6_err_convert at all for redirects. Then we could
   place a WARN_ON(type == NDISC_REDIRECT) into this function to find future
   missuse of this function with redirects or

b) handle the update of the NDISC_REDIRECT error code directly in
   icmpv6_err_convert.

Also that you used the same headings for some commits shows that you could
perhaps squash them into one patch.

Otherwise I'm fine with the changes, thanks.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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