netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 05/13] ipv6: Create init helper for fib6

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Date:   Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:50:19 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com, jiri@...lanox.com,
        saeedm@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 05/13] ipv6: Create init helper for fib6_nh

On 3/27/19 8:29 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:]\
> that was a typo. I meant fib6_flags.
> why mess with cfg and use it as weird side effect only to
> get rt->fib6_flags = cfg->fc_flags; working after fib6_nh_init() returns?
> Why not to move that fib6_flags = fc_flags assignment into fib6_nh_init ?
> Then cfg can stay constant and no weird side effects from init function.
> 

Because fib6_flags is not a nh_init argument and it should not be.

I will duplicate that check to appease your request of not touching
cfg->flags.