Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] ipv4: Do not cache routing failures due to disabled forwarding.

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Oct 30 2014 - 19:21:23 EST


From: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:09:53 +0100

> If we cache them, the kernel will reuse them, independently of
> whether forwarding is enabled or not. Which means that if forwarding is
> disabled on the input interface where the first routing request comes
> from, then that unreachable result will be cached and reused for
> other interfaces, even if forwarding is enabled on them. The opposite
> is also true.
>
> This can be verified with two interfaces A and B and an output interface
> C, where B has forwarding enabled, but not A and trying
> ip route get $dst iif A from $src && ip route get $dst iif B from $src
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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