netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ipv4: fix l3slave check for index returned in IP

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:28:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv4: fix l3slave check for index returned in
 IP_PKTINFO

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:11:37 -0700

> rt_iif is only set to the actual egress device for the output path. The
> recent change to consider the l3slave flag when returning IP_PKTINFO
> works for local traffic (the correct device index is returned), but it
> broke the more typical use case of packets received from a remote host
> always returning the VRF index rather than the original ingress device.
> Update the fixup to consider l3slave and rt_iif actually getting set.
> 
> Fixes: 1dfa76390bf05 ("net: ipv4: add check for l3slave for index returned in IP_PKTINFO")
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Applied, thanks David.