netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: tcp response should set oif only if it is L3 master

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Date:   Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:32:55 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, lorenzo@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tcp response should set oif only if it is L3
 master

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Wed,  9 Nov 2016 09:07:26 -0800

> Lorenzo noted an Android unit test failed due to e0d56fdd7342:
> "The expectation in the test was that the RST replying to a SYN sent to a
> closed port should be generated with oif=0. In other words it should not
> prefer the interface where the SYN came in on, but instead should follow
> whatever the routing table says it should do."
> 
> Revert the change to ip_send_unicast_reply and tcp_v6_send_response such
> that the oif in the flow is set to the skb_iif only if skb_iif is an L3
> master.
> 
> Fixes: e0d56fdd7342 ("net: l3mdev: remove redundant calls")
> Reported-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied, thanks David.