netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bpf: add bpf

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Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:08:22 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bpf: add bpf_redirect() helper

On 9/15/15 9:50 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
> Looks like you can remove the check. I would prefer to let the stack
> handle this case using normal mechanisms.
>
> I had to do a bit of tracking but netif_running check equates roughly
> to your IFF_UP case via,
...
> Seem reasonable? Or did you put it there to work around some specific
> case I'm missing?

well, in the forwarding path is_skb_forwardable() does the IFF_UP check
before netif_running() has to do it, so yeah this check can be dropped.

Will fix in v2.
Thanks for the review!

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