netdev - RE: [PATCH] tcp: RST: binding oif to iif for tcp v4

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Date:	Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:06:56 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Shawn Lu <shawn.lu@...csson.com>
Cc:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xiaoclu@...il.com" <xiaoclu@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tcp: RST: binding oif to iif for tcp v4

Le vendredi 03 février 2012 à 16:43 -0500, Shawn Lu a écrit :

> [shawn Lu] ok.  Tcp socket is bind to device using SO_BINDTODEVICE  to
> Limit traffic to specifc interface.  Sometime, it may not have a valid
> Source address to get through ip_route_output_key. 
> 

Define "Sometime" ?

We have to force the oif only if requested by the socket in this case.

arg.bound_dev_if = sk ? sk->sk_bound_dev_if : 0;

Thats what we do in tcp_v4_send_ack() :
	if (oif)
		arg.bound_dev_if = oif;




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