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[IPV6]: V6 route events reported with wrong netlink PID and seq number

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Essentially netlink at the moment always reports a pid and sequence of 0
always for v6 route activities. 
To understand the repurcassions of this look at:
http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2005-June/003507.html

While fixing this, i took the liberty to resolve the outstanding issue
of IPV6 routes inserted via ioctls to have the correct pids as well.

This patch tries to behave as close as possible to the v4 routes i.e
maintains whatever PID the socket issuing the command owns as opposed to
the process. That made the patch a little bulky.

I have tested against both netlink derived utility to add/del routes as
well as ioctl derived one. The Quagga folks have tested against quagga.
This fixes the problem and so far hasnt been detected to introduce any
new issues.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jamal Hadi Salim
2005-06-21 13:51:04 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 19baf839ff
commit 0d51aa80a9
7 changed files with 74 additions and 63 deletions
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net/ipv6/anycast.c
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@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ int ipv6_dev_ac_inc(struct net_device *dev, struct in6_addr *addr)
write_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);
dst_hold(&rt->u.dst);
if (ip6_ins_rt(rt, NULL, NULL))
if (ip6_ins_rt(rt, NULL, NULL, NULL))
dst_release(&rt->u.dst);
addrconf_join_solict(dev, &aca->aca_addr);
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ int __ipv6_dev_ac_dec(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct in6_addr *addr)
addrconf_leave_solict(idev, &aca->aca_addr);
dst_hold(&aca->aca_rt->u.dst);
if (ip6_del_rt(aca->aca_rt, NULL, NULL))
if (ip6_del_rt(aca->aca_rt, NULL, NULL, NULL))
dst_free(&aca->aca_rt->u.dst);
else
dst_release(&aca->aca_rt->u.dst);