netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Set protocol to kernel for local routes

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Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:01:55 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Set protocol to kernel for local
 routes

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2017 08:52:21 -0800

> IPv6 stack does not set the protocol for local routes, so those routes show
> up with proto "none":
>     $ ip -6 ro ls table local
>     local ::1 dev lo proto none metric 0  pref medium
>     local 2100:3:: dev lo proto none metric 0  pref medium
>     local 2100:3::4 dev lo proto none metric 0  pref medium
>     local fe80:: dev lo proto none metric 0  pref medium
>     ...
> 
> Set rt6i_protocol to RTPROT_KERNEL for consistency with IPv4. Now routes
> show up with proto "kernel":
>     $ ip -6 ro ls table local
>     local ::1 dev lo proto kernel metric 0  pref medium
>     local 2100:3:: dev lo proto kernel metric 0  pref medium
>     local 2100:3::4 dev lo proto kernel metric 0  pref medium
>     local fe80:: dev lo proto kernel metric 0  pref medium
>     ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied.