netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: Default fib6_type to RTN

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Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:15:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: Default fib6_type to RTN_UNICAST when not set

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:50:24 -0700

> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> A user reported that routes are getting installed with type 0 (RTN_UNSPEC)
> where before the routes were RTN_UNICAST. One example is from accel-ppp
> which apparently still uses the ioctl interface and does not set
> rtmsg_type. Another is the netlink interface where ipv6 does not require
> rtm_type to be set (v4 does). Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag the
> ipv6 stack converted type 0 to RTN_UNICAST, so restore that behavior.
> 
> Fixes: e8478e80e5a7 ("net/ipv6: Save route type in rt6_info")
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks David.