From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c7036d97acd2527cef145b5ef9ad1a37ed21bbe6 ] A user reported that routes are getting installed with type 0 (RTN_UNSPEC) where before the routes were RTN_UNICAST. One example is from accel-ppp which apparently still uses the ioctl interface and does not set rtmsg_type. Another is the netlink interface where ipv6 does not require rtm_type to be set (v4 does). Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag the ipv6 stack converted type 0 to RTN_UNICAST, so restore that behavior. Fixes: e8478e80e5a7 ("net/ipv6: Save route type in rt6_info") Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -3109,7 +3109,7 @@ static struct fib6_info *ip6_route_info_ rt->fib6_metric = cfg->fc_metric; rt->fib6_nh.nh_weight = 1; - rt->fib6_type = cfg->fc_type; + rt->fib6_type = cfg->fc_type ? : RTN_UNICAST; /* We cannot add true routes via loopback here, they would result in kernel looping; promote them to reject routes