From patchwork Wed Jan 30 08:26:08 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [net] ipv6: do not create neighbor entries for local delivery Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:26:08 -0000 From: Jiri Pirko X-Patchwork-Id: 216780 Message-Id: <20130130082608.GA1604@minipsycho.orion> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, mleitner@redhat.com From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner They will be created at output, if ever needed. This avoids creating empty neighbor entries when TPROXYing/Forwarding packets for addresses that are not even directly reachable. Note that IPv4 already handles it this way. No neighbor entries are created for local input. Tested by myself and customer. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner --- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index e229a3b..363d8b7 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ restart: dst_hold(&rt->dst); read_unlock_bh(&table->tb6_lock); - if (!rt->n && !(rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_NONEXTHOP)) + if (!rt->n && !(rt->rt6i_flags & (RTF_NONEXTHOP | RTF_LOCAL))) nrt = rt6_alloc_cow(rt, &fl6->daddr, &fl6->saddr); else if (!(rt->dst.flags & DST_HOST)) nrt = rt6_alloc_clone(rt, &fl6->daddr);