netdev - Re: [PATCH net,v3] vrf: Use orig netdev to count Ip6InNoRoutes and a fresh route lookup when sending dest unreach

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Date:   Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:29:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ssuryaextr@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net,v3] vrf: Use orig netdev to count Ip6InNoRoutes and
 a fresh route lookup when sending dest unreach

From: Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:14:33 -0400

> When there is no route to an IPv6 dest addr, skb_dst(skb) points
> to loopback dev in the case of that the IP6CB(skb)->iif is
> enslaved to a vrf. This causes Ip6InNoRoutes to be incremented on the
> loopback dev. This also causes the lookup to fail on icmpv6_send() and
> the dest unreachable to not sent and Ip6OutNoRoutes gets incremented on
> the loopback dev.
 ...
> Fix this by counting on the original netdev and reset the skb dst to
> force a fresh lookup.
> 
> v2: Fix typo of destination address in the repro steps.
> v3: Simplify the loopback check (per David Ahern) and use reverse
>     Christmas tree format (per David Miller).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.