netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix returned tc and hoplimit values for route with IPv6 encapsulation

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:35:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	quentin@...itage.org.uk
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix returned tc and hoplimit values for route with
 IPv6 encapsulation

From: Quentin Armitage <quentin@...itage.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:06:11 +0100

> For a route with IPv6 encapsulation, the traffic class and hop limit
> values are interchanged when returned to userspace by the kernel.
> For example, see below.
> 
>># ip route add 192.168.0.1 dev eth0.2 encap ip6 dst 0x50 tc 0x50 hoplimit 100 table 1000
>># ip route show table 1000
> 192.168.0.1  encap ip6 id 0 src :: dst fe83::1 hoplimit 80 tc 100 dev eth0.2  scope link
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Armitage <quentin@...itage.org.uk>

Applied, thank you.