netdev - Re: [PATCHv4 net 3/8] gtp: do not confirm neighbor when do pmtu update

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Date:   Sat, 21 Dec 2019 19:35:49 +0100
From:   Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Pablo Neira <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net 3/8] gtp: do not confirm neighbor when do pmtu
 update

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:25:20AM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Although gtp only support ipv4 right now, and __ip_rt_update_pmtu() does not
> call dst_confirm_neigh(), we still set it to false to keep consistency with
> IPv6 code.
> 
I guess this explanation is ok for GTP: it seems that the current
implementation can only transport IPv4 packets.