D David Miller #
As discussed in other threads, the routing table lives in the same data structure as cached routing entries. This enforces a false limit on the number of routing table entries one can install on ipv6 and this is becomming a real problem for people. Fix this by adding a DST_NOCOUNT flag and use it for ipv6 routing table entries. No special handling is necessary when cloning or copying since the flags are never directly copied by the clone/copy code in ipv6. This is a 2 patch series now in order to sanitize the dst->flags setting done in net/ipv6/route.c I've tested this by adding and removing ~16K ipv6 routes over and over again, the routing cache limit never got hit. Simon, you'll need to work out that crash you were seeing since I can't reproduce it on any of my machines.