From: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:54:09 -0700

> Before patch 'Allow pmtu update on /128 via gateway route',
> RTF_CACHE route was not created for DST_HOST.  It also requires changes on 
> both
> delete code path and rt6_select() code patch.
> 
> This patch fixes the delete code path to avoid deleting the RTF_CACHE
> route by 'ip -6 r del...'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>
> Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>

If a cached route was created in response to say a PMTU event, and
it's a clone/copy/cow of the route we are being asked to delete,
it absolutely should be removed.

In fact this is a critically important aspect of removing routes
from the table.

So this change does not seem correct.
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