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

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 07:28:04 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
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)

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:36:57PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> The IP stack shouldn't be too hard, we currently set skb->dev in
> ip_output, after that we only have the POST_ROUTING hook and ip_fragment
> which care. It wouldn't help with ipip/ip_gre though, at that point
> skb->dev must point to the tunnel device.

I think that should be OK though.  Once you pass through ipip/ip_gre's
transmit function, you're conceptually a locally generated packet.

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