netdev - Re: [nf-next, 1/2] netfilter: conntrack: cache route for forwarded connections

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:05:28 +0200
From:	Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@...il.com>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	brouer@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [nf-next, 1/2] netfilter: conntrack: cache route for forwarded connections

2014-12-08 16:36 GMT+01:00 Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>:
> ... to avoid per-packet FIB lookup if possible.
>
> The cached dst is re-used provided the input interface
> is the same as that of the previous packet in the same direction.
>
> If not, the cached dst is invalidated.

It looks like someone found out that this patch causes crashes. This
was reported to OpenWrt in ticket https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/22283