netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: del unreachable route when an addr is deleted on lo

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Date:	Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:49:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: del unreachable route when an addr is deleted
 on lo

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:04:55 +0200

> When an address is added on loopback (ip -6 a a 2002::1/128 dev lo), two routes
> are added:
>  - one in the local table:
>     local 2002::1 via :: dev lo  proto none  metric 0
>  - one the in main table (for the prefix):
>     unreachable 2002::1 dev lo  proto kernel  metric 256  error -101
> 
> When the address is deleted, the route inserted in the main table remains
> because we use rt6_lookup(), which returns NULL when dst->error is set, which
> is the case here! Thus, it is better to use ip6_route_lookup() to avoid this
> kind of filter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> ---
> v2: rt cannot be NULL, so adjust the test after ip6_route_lookup()

Applied, thanks.
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