netdev - Re: [PATCH 10/11] ipv6: move route updating for redirect to ndisc layer

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Message-ID: <52326C9F.5070700@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:38:39 +0800
From:	Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] ipv6: move route updating for redirect to ndisc
 layer

于 2013年09月13日 06:04, Hannes Frederic Sowa 写道:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 06:51:49PM +0800, Duan Jiong wrote:
>> From: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
>>
>> And when dealing with redirect message, the err shoud
>> be assigned to 0.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  net/ipv6/raw.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
>> index 58916bb..6138199 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
>> @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static void rawv6_err(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
>>  		harderr = (np->pmtudisc == IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO);
>>  	}
>>  	if (type == NDISC_REDIRECT)
>> -		ip6_sk_redirect(skb, sk);
>> +		err = 0;
>>  	if (np->recverr) {
>>  		u8 *payload = skb->data;
>>  		if (!inet->hdrincl)
> 
> Hm, I don't like the cirumstance that we first call icmpv6_err_convert at
> first and get back a bogus error value and later on convert it to something
> meaningful.
> 
> Either:
> a) Don't call icmpv6_err_convert at all for redirects. Then we could
>    place a WARN_ON(type == NDISC_REDIRECT) into this function to find future
>    missuse of this function with redirects or
> 
> b) handle the update of the NDISC_REDIRECT error code directly in
>    icmpv6_err_convert.
> 
> Also that you used the same headings for some commits shows that you could
> perhaps squash them into one patch.
> 
> Otherwise I'm fine with the changes, thanks.
> 

Thanks for you help, i will modify my patch.

Thanks,
  Duan

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