netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: addrconf: fix mcast route for GRE devices

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:37:34 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	equinox@...c24.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: addrconf: fix mcast route for GRE devices

On Do, 2014-07-31 at 12:06 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:39:57 +0200
> 
> > GRE devices, for some reason, were coming up with an autoconfigured
> > address, but no ff00::/8 route in the local table.  This breaks any kind
> > of multicast, in particular OSPFv3, mDNS, - and ND.  In fact, IPv6 only
> > works at all because there is little need for ND on PtP devices.
> > 
> > Adding any other IPv6 address on the device from userspace would rectify
> > this issue through inet6_addr_add()/addrconf_add_dev() - and would leave
> > the route around even if the address was later removed.  (This is
> > probably why this issue was not discovered earlier.  AFAICS it has been
> > there from the beginning, e.g. aee80b5 "generate link local address for
> > GRE tunnel")
> > 
> > (Note: multicast is supported on GRE devices of all kinds, including PtP
> > GRE, P-t-Mcast GRE and NBMA-GRE.)
> > 
> > Fixes: aee80b54b235 (ipv6: generate link local address for GRE tunnel)
> > Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
> > Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> 
> Hannes, are you OK with this version?  Please ACK if so.

The alternate version does provide the same semantic change and makes
the code more readable. Both changes are technically correct, I acked
the alternate version already.

Thank you,
Hannes



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