This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: do not create neighbor entries for local delivery
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6-do-not-create-neighbor-entries-for-local-delivery.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From fffaba2bc44bf334754d6bf7bc729f39c9962282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:26:08 +0000
Subject: ipv6: do not create neighbor entries for local delivery
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit bd30e947207e2ea0ff2c08f5b4a03025ddce48d3 ]
They will be created at output, if ever needed. This avoids creating
empty neighbor entries when TPROXYing/Forwarding packets for addresses
that are not even directly reachable.
Note that IPv4 already handles it this way. No neighbor entries are
created for local input.
Tested by myself and customer.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -846,7 +846,8 @@ restart:
dst_hold(&rt->dst);
read_unlock_bh(&table->tb6_lock);
- if (!dst_get_neighbour_noref_raw(&rt->dst) && !(rt->rt6i_flags &
RTF_NONEXTHOP))
+ if (!dst_get_neighbour_noref_raw(&rt->dst) &&
+ !(rt->rt6i_flags & (RTF_NONEXTHOP | RTF_LOCAL)))
nrt = rt6_alloc_cow(rt, &fl6->daddr, &fl6->saddr);
else if (!(rt->dst.flags & DST_HOST))
nrt = rt6_alloc_clone(rt, &fl6->daddr);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/ipv6-do-not-create-neighbor-entries-for-local-delivery.patch
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