netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 08/11] ipv6: Dump route exceptions if requested

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:02:26 +0200
From:   Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>,
        Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 08/11] ipv6: Dump route exceptions if
 requested

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:24:22 -0600
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:

> On 6/19/19 5:59 PM, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > +	if (filter->dump_exceptions) {
> > +		struct fib6_nh_exception_dump_walker w = { .dump = arg,
> > +							   .rt = rt,
> > +							   .flags = flags,
> > +							   .skip = skip,
> > +							   .count = 0 };
> > +		int err;
> > +
> > +		if (rt->nh) {
> > +			err = nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh(rt->nh,
> > +						       rt6_nh_dump_exceptions,
> > +						       &w);  
> 
> much like ipv4, the skb can fill in the middle of a fib6_nh bucket, so
> you need to track which nexthop is in progress.

Same as my comment about IPv4, except that, for IPv6, distinction
between skip and skip_in_node is strictly needed, but buckets and
nexthops are traversed in the same order and 'sernum' changes don't
affect that.

-- 
Stefano