Re: [PATCH net-next v7 00/11] Fix listing (IPv4, IPv6) and flushing (IPv6) of cached route exceptions

From: Stefano Brivio <redacted>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:45:19 +0200

For IPv6 cached routes, the commands 'ip -6 route list cache' and
'ip -6 route flush cache' don't work at all after route exceptions have
been moved to a separate hash table in commit 2b760fcf5cfb ("ipv6: hook
up exception table to store dst cache").

For IPv4 cached routes, the command 'ip route list cache' has also
stopped working in kernel 3.5 after commit 4895c771c7f0 ("ipv4: Add FIB
nexthop exceptions.") introduced storage for route exceptions as a
separate entity.

Fix this by allowing userspace to clearly request cached routes with
the RTM_F_CLONED flag used as a filter (in conjuction with strict
checking) and by retrieving and dumping cached routes if requested.

If strict checking is not requested (iproute2 < 5.0.0), we don't have a
way to consistently filter results on other selectors (e.g. on tables),
so skip filtering entirely and dump both regular routes and exceptions.

For IPv4, cache flushing uses a completely different mechanism, so it
wasn't affected. Listing of exception routes (modified routes pre-3.5) was
tested against these versions of kernel and iproute2:

 ...

Series applied, thanks.