netdev - Re: oops in net/ipv4/icmp.c:icmp_send() with icmp_errors_use_inbound

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Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 15:26:27 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	kaber@...sh.net (Patrick McHardy)
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jmorris@...ei.org, Curtis@...enkey.net,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: oops in net/ipv4/icmp.c:icmp_send() with icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr (fwd)

Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> 
> This leaves the question what to do in the path after ip_output,
> when skb->dev points to the output device. We don't know the
> input device anymore, so there doesn't seem to be a way to make
> it do what the sysctl promises.

Perhaps we could change things so that the setting of skb->dev is
delayed until the packet has completely left the IP stack?  It'd
require a massive audit though of the IP stack though.

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