netdev - Re: return of ip_rt

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Date:	Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:00:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ja@....bg
Cc:	selinux@...il.com, davej@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: return of ip_rt_bug()

From: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 16:51:26 +0300 (EEST)

> 	There are other places that used fl.iif (0 for output
> routes) but are now using rt_iif instead of rt_route_iif,
> not sure if this change is fatal for them because:
> 
> - net/sched/cls_route.c, route4_classify() gets optional
> iif, so it can be 0, may be to match output route? And
> later route4_classify does exact match for rt_iif. Does
> it mean that now we can not match output packets without
> providing "fromif OUTDEV" ?
> 
> - net/sched/em_meta.c: now int_rtiif (being rt_iif) is
> always != 0, may be not good to match output routes?
> 
> 	In short, the fl.iif -> rt_iif conversion is risky
> at some places.

If we convert em_meta.c and cls_route.c to use rt_route_iif
we should be OK right?  Please patches to do this if so.

Thanks.
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