This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv4: Do not cache routing failures due to disabled forwarding.
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv4-do-not-cache-routing-failures-due-to-disabled-forwarding.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Fri Nov 7 11:36:50 PST 2014
From: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:09:53 +0100
Subject: ipv4: Do not cache routing failures due to disabled forwarding.
From: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit fa19c2b050ab5254326f5fc07096dd3c6a8d5d58 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/route.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1798,6 +1798,7 @@ local_input:
no_route:
RT_CACHE_STAT_INC(in_no_route);
res.type = RTN_UNREACHABLE;
+ res.fi = NULL;
goto local_input;
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/ipv4-do-not-cache-routing-failures-due-to-disabled-forwarding.patch
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