On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 01:51:25PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/1/19 2:29 AM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > Jianlin reported a bug that for IPv4, ip route get from src_addr would fail
> > if src_addr is not an address on local system.
> > 
> > \# ip route get 1.1.1.1 from 2.2.2.2
> > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
> 
> so this is a forwarding lookup in which case iif should be set. Based on

with out setting iif in userspace, the kernel set iif to lo by default.

> the above 'route get' inet_rtm_getroute is doing a lookup as if it is
> locally generated traffic.

yeah... but what about the IPv6 part. That cause a different behavior in
userspace.

Thanks
Hangbin

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