From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:34:09 -0600
> On 7/31/17 5:22 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:25:36 +0800
>>
>>> After commit 18c3a61c4264 ("net: ipv6: RTM_GETROUTE: return matched fib
>>> result when requested"). When we get a prohibit ertry, we will return
>>> -EACCES directly instead of dump route info.
>>>
>>> Fix it by remove the rt->dst.error check.
>> ...
>>> Fixes: 18c3a61c4264 ("net: ipv6: RTM_GETROUTE: return matched fib...")
>>> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
>>
>> David A., where are we on this?
>>
>
> Dizzy from running in circles.
:-)
> Question I posed to you Saturday morning, 8:41 MDT [1]:
>
> "... Roopa's fibmatch patches caused a change in user behavior in IPv6
> getroute for prohibit, blackhole and unreachable route entries. Opinions
> on whether we should limit that new behavior to just the fibmatch lookup
> in which case a patch is needed or take the new behavior and consistency
> in which case nothing is needed?"
>
> Personally, after all the discussion I think the behavior as it is right
> now is best.
>
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg446571.html
I agree with you that we should keep the behavior as is.
