netdev - Re: [PATCH net] Fixes: 5943634fc559 ("ipv4: Maintain redirect and PMTU info in struct rtable again.")

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Date:   Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:20:16 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     stephen.suryaputra.lin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        ssurya@...e.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Fixes: 5943634fc559 ("ipv4: Maintain redirect and
 PMTU info in struct rtable again.")

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:08:52 -0800

> In any case, rt is a shared object at that time, so even temporarily
> clearing/restoring rt_gateway seems wrong to me.
> 
> I would rather call __ipv4_neigh_lookup(dst->dev, new_gw) directly at
> this point.

Agreed.