linux-kernel - Re: IPv6: Blackhole route support partial ?

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Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:50:20 +0530
From:	Kamala R <kamala@...stanetworks.com>
To:	Kamala R <kamala@...stanetworks.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6: Blackhole route support partial ?

Hi,

I have one quick question before I send the patch across. I noticed
that "ip -6 route show" shows an error -22 in the output which
signifies -EINVAL associated with blackhole routes. This behaviour is
not consistent with that of "ip route show" that shows no such error
for a blackhole route. Does this qualify a bug that needs fixing ?

Regards,
Kamala

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 04:39:10PM +0530, Kamala R wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sure, here it is.
>>
>> --- linux-3.12/net/ipv6/route.c.orig    2013-11-12 16:23:46.000000000 +0530
>> +++ linux-3.12/net/ipv6/route.c 2013-11-12 16:30:51.000000000 +0530
>> @@ -1570,9 +1570,13 @@ int ip6_route_add(struct fib6_config *cf
>>                 switch (cfg->fc_type) {
>>                 case RTN_BLACKHOLE:
>>                         rt->dst.error = -EINVAL;
>> +                       rt->dst.input = dst_discard;
>> +                       rt->dst.discard = dst_discard;
>>                         break;
>>                 case RTN_PROHIBIT:
>>                         rt->dst.error = -EACCES;
>> +                       rt->dst.input = ip6_pkt_prohibit;
>> +                       rt->dst.output = ip6_pkt_prohibit_out;
>>                         break;
>>                 case RTN_THROW:
>>                         rt->dst.error = -EAGAIN;
>>
>> Is this ok ?
>
> I woud move all the initialization of the function pointer into the
> switch-case. You could merge the case RTN_THROW with the default one by just
> using a ternary statement to initialize dst.error.
>
> Your patch must be well-formed to get included into the
> kernel. For that you should base your patch ontop net-next
> or net, write a proper commit message and send the git
> format-patch generated patch to this list. Here some hints:
> <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches>
>
> You can check if your formatting is correct by using scripts/checkpatch
> --strict.
>
> Let me know if there are any problems with that.
>
> Thank you,
>
>   Hannes
>
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