On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 11:43 -0600, David Ahern wrote: > On 3/24/16 10:45 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 08:25 -0700, David Ahern wrote: > >> Multipath route lookups should consider knowledge about next hops and not > >> select a hop that is known to be failed. > > > > Does not look a net candidate to me. > > you don't consider this a bug? certainly not a feature.
For a bug that lasted years, certainly the fix can be properly tested in net-next, then eventually backported to stable once validated. Unless there is a sudden concern about known ways to crash linux hosts ;)