Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: fix handling of throw routes

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 11:53 -0400, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:

It's the same problem that previous fix about blackhole and prohibit routes.

When adding a throw route, it was handled like a classic route.
Moreover, it was only possible to add this kind of routes by specifying
an interface.

Before the patch:
  $ ip route add throw 2001::2/128
  RTNETLINK answers: No such device
  $ ip route add throw 2001::2/128 dev eth0
  $ ip -6 route | grep 2001::2
  2001::2 dev eth0  metric 1024

After:
  $ ip route add throw 2001::2/128
  $ ip -6 route | grep 2001::2
  throw 2001::2 dev lo  metric 1024  error -11

Reported-by: Markus Stenberg <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>
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 net/ipv6/route.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Thanks Nicolas