From: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 15:25:09 +0200
> with the commit 8c14586fc320 ("net: ipv6: Use passed in table for
> nexthop lookups"), net hop lookup is first performed on route creation
> in the passed-in table.
> However device match is not enforced in table lookup, so the found
> route can be later discarded due to egress device mismatch and no
> global lookup will be performed.
> This cause the following to fail:
>
> ip link add dummy1 type dummy
> ip link add dummy2 type dummy
> ip link set dummy1 up
> ip link set dummy2 up
> ip route add 2001:db8:8086::/48 dev dummy1 metric 20
> ip route add 2001:db8:d34d::/64 via 2001:db8:8086::2 dev dummy1 metric 20
> ip route add 2001:db8:8086::/48 dev dummy2 metric 21
> ip route add 2001:db8:d34d::/64 via 2001:db8:8086::2 dev dummy2 metric 21
> RTNETLINK answers: No route to host
>
> This change fixes the issue enforcing device lookup in
> ip6_nh_lookup_table()
>
> v1->v2: updated commit message title
>
> Fixes: 8c14586fc320 ("net: ipv6: Use passed in table for nexthop lookups")
> Reported-and-tested-by: Beniamino Galvani <bgalv...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>
Applied, thank you.
