netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: replace RTF_ROUTEINFO with RTF_ADDRCONF in rt6_get_route

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Date:	Thu, 7 Nov 2013 02:51:00 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: replace RTF_ROUTEINFO with RTF_ADDRCONF in  rt6_get_route_info()

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 03:26:41PM +0800, Duan Jiong wrote:
> 
> As the rfc 4191 said, the Router Preference and Lifetime values in a
> ::/0 Route Information Option should override the preference and lifetime
> values in the Router Advertisement header. But when the kernel deals with
> a ::/0 Route Information Option, the rt6_get_route_info() always return
> NULL, that means that overriding will not happen, because those default
> routers were added without flag RTF_ROUTEINFO in rt6_add_dflt_router().
> 
> In order to match those default routers, we can replace RTF_ROUTEINFO 
> with RTF_ADDRCONF in rt6_get_route_info().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>

Hmm, that looks like a bug. Nice catch!

Couldn't we just replace the rt6_get_route_info in rt6_route_rcv with a call
to rt6_get_dflt_router? Seems easier, already handles the ::/0 case and also
does preserve the check for the RTF_ROUTEINFO flag in rt6_add_route_info.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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