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| author | David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> | 2016-09-10 12:09:54 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-09-10 23:12:52 -0700 |
| commit | 5f02ce24c2696fec33f2a5dfcf753996f5fdd211 (patch) | |
| tree | 123e0a2518f4a18e5d0b59c6e3442c5f355b23f5 /net/ipv6 | |
| parent | a8e3e1a9f02094145580ea7920c6a1d9aabd5539 (diff) | |
net: l3mdev: Allow the l3mdev to be a loopback
Allow an L3 master device to act as the loopback for that L3 domain.
For IPv4 the device can also have the address 127.0.0.1.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/route.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 09d43ff11a8d..2c681113c055 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -2558,8 +2558,16 @@ struct rt6_info *addrconf_dst_alloc(struct inet6_dev *idev, { u32 tb_id; struct net *net = dev_net(idev->dev); - struct rt6_info *rt = ip6_dst_alloc(net, net->loopback_dev, - DST_NOCOUNT); + struct net_device *dev = net->loopback_dev; + struct rt6_info *rt; + + /* use L3 Master device as loopback for host routes if device + * is enslaved and address is not link local or multicast + */ + if (!rt6_need_strict(addr)) + dev = l3mdev_master_dev_rcu(idev->dev) ? : dev; + + rt = ip6_dst_alloc(net, dev, DST_NOCOUNT); if (!rt) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); |