netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: set route type for anycast routes

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:45:12 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: set route type for anycast routes

On 3/16/17 9:41 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:14:33 -0700
> 
>> Anycast routes have the RTF_ANYCAST flag set, but when dumping routes
>> for userspace the route type is not set to RTN_ANYCAST. Make it so.
>>
>> Fixes: 58c4fb86eabcb ("[IPV6]: Flag RTF_ANYCAST for anycast routes")
>> CC: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
>> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> Good catch, applied, thanks.

Can you put this into stable for back to say 4.4? that way tools can
directly discriminate anycast routes from host routes for at least
new'ish kernels. Thanks,