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David S. Miller
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Guillaume Nault says: ==================== ipv4: First steps toward removing RTO_ONLINK RTO_ONLINK is a flag that allows to reduce the scope of route lookups. It's stored in a normally unused bit of the ->flowi4_tos field, in struct flowi4. However it has several problems: * This bit is also used by ECN. Although ECN bits are supposed to be cleared before doing a route lookup, it happened that some code paths didn't properly sanitise their ->flowi4_tos. So this mechanism is fragile and we had bugs in the past where ECN bits slipped in and could end up being erroneously interpreted as RTO_ONLINK. * A dscp_t type was recently introduced to ensure ECN bits are cleared during route lookups. ->flowi4_tos is the most important structure field to convert, but RTO_ONLINK prevents such conversion, as dscp_t mandates that ECN bits (where RTO_ONLINK is stored) be zero. Therefore we need to stop using RTO_ONLINK altogether. Fortunately RTO_ONLINK isn't a necessity. Instead of passing a flag in ->flowi4_tos to tell the route lookup function to restrict the scope, we can simply initialise the scope correctly. Patch 1 does some preparatory work: it stops resetting ->flowi4_scope automatically before a route lookup, thus allowing callers to set their desired scope without having to rely on the RTO_ONLINK flag. Patch 2-3 convert a few code paths to avoid relying on RTO_ONLINK. More conversions will have to take place before we can eventually remove this flag. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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