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net: restore ip source validation

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when using policy routing and the skb mark:
there are cases where a back path validation requires us
to use a different routing table for src ip validation than
the one used for mapping ingress dst ip.
One such a case is transparent proxying where we pretend to be
the destination system and therefore the local table
is used for incoming packets but possibly a main table would
be used on outbound.
Make the default behavior to allow the above and if users
need to turn on the symmetry via sysctl src_valid_mark

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jamal Hadi Salim
2009-12-25 17:30:22 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 4a6e47a460
commit 28f6aeea3f
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@ -1397,6 +1397,7 @@ static struct devinet_sysctl_table {
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ACCEPT_SOURCE_ROUTE,
"accept_source_route"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ACCEPT_LOCAL, "accept_local"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(SRC_VMARK, "src_valid_mark"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(PROXY_ARP, "proxy_arp"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(MEDIUM_ID, "medium_id"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(BOOTP_RELAY, "bootp_relay"),