linux-kernel - Re: OOPS, ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1, linux-2.6.26, ip6_route_output, rt6_fill

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Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:40:57 +0800
From:	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	brian.haley@...com, adobriyan@...il.com, john.gumb@...dberg.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	parag.warudkar@...il.com
Subject: Re: OOPS, ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1, linux-2.6.26, ip6_route_output,
 rt6_fill_node+0x175

Eugene Teo wrote:
> Eugene Teo wrote:
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:40:24 +0800
> [...]
>> With the patch I posted, this is the behaviour I get:
>>
>> $ ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1
>> unreachable fec0::1 dev lo  table unspec  proto none  src
>> fe80::214:4fff:fe0f:7332  metric -1  error -101 hoplimit 255
> 
> Ok, so there's a mistake in my patch. It should return the loopback MAC

s/MAC/ipv6/

> address instead. I'm wondering if the fix should be related to
> initialising rt6i_idev in addrconf_init routine like in the upstream
> commit: c62dba9011b93fd88fde929848582b2a98309878. The code changed quite
> a lot.

So I checked, it's initialised in ip6_route_init().

Eugene
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