netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/3] net: Fail route add with unsupported nexthop attribute

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Date:   Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:27:36 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] net: Fail route add with unsupported nexthop
 attribute

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:00:01 -0800

> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> RTA_VIA was added for MPLS as a way of specifying a gateway from a
> different address family. IPv4 and IPv6 do not currently support RTA_VIA
> so using it leads to routes that are not what the user intended. Catch
> and fail - returning a proper error message.
> 
> MPLS on the other hand does not support RTA_GATEWAY since it does not
> make sense to have a nexthop from the MPLS address family. Similarly,
> catch and fail - returning a proper error message.

Series applied and queued up for -stable.