From: Jeff Barnhill <0xeff...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:29:47 +0000
> At the end of ip6_forward(), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS and > IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS are incremented immediately before the NF_HOOK call > for NFPROTO_IPV6 / NF_INET_FORWARD. As a result, these counters get > incremented regardless of whether or not the netfilter hook allows the > packet to continue being processed. This change increments the counters > in ip6_forward_finish() so that it will not happen if the netfilter hook > chooses to terminate the packet, which is similar to how IPv4 works. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Barnhill <0xeff...@gmail.com> Yep, this is more consistent with ipv4. Applied, thank you.
