netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't reject link-local nexthop on other interface

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Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:29:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fw@...len.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't reject link-local nexthop on other
 interface

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Fri,  7 Aug 2015 10:54:28 +0200

> 48ed7b26faa7 ("ipv6: reject locally assigned nexthop addresses") is too
> strict; it rejects following corner-case:
> 
> ip -6 route add default via fe80::1:2:3 dev eth1
> 
> [ where fe80::1:2:3 is assigned to a local interface, but not eth1 ]
> 
> Fix this by restricting search to given device if nh is linklocal.
> 
> Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa.
> 
> Fixes: 48ed7b26faa7 ("ipv6: reject locally assigned nexthop addresses")
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

Applied, thank you.
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