netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix route lookup in addrconf_prefix

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Date:	Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:13:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andi@...lax.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix route lookup in addrconf_prefix_rcv()

From: Andreas Hofmeister <andi@...lax.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:24:29 +0200

> The route lookup to find a previously auto-configured route for a prefixes used
> to use rt6_lookup(), with the prefix from the RA used as an address. However,
> that kind of lookup ignores routing tables, the prefix length and route flags,
> so when there were other matching routes, even in different tables and/or with
> a different prefix length, the wrong route would be manipulated.
> 
> Now, a new function "addrconf_get_prefix_route()" is used for the route lookup,
> which searches in RT6_TABLE_PREFIX and takes the prefix-length and route flags
> into account.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Hofmeister <andi@...lax.com>

Applied, thanks a lot.
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